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WOODPECKER. 5 6$ 



the web ; the next has two on the inner, and one only on the 

 outer web: legs lead-colour. 



The female differs only in wanting the red on the hind head. Female, 



This bird is pretty common in England, France, Germany, and Places and 

 other parts of Europe, frequenting the woods like the reft of its 

 genus, and is likewife met with in America. It is a very cunning 

 bird -, for when a perfon has feen one on a tree, he is almoft lure 

 to lofe fight of it, if the tree is large, and the obferver not very 

 attentive ; for the moment it fpies any one, it will creep behind a 

 branch, and there lay fecure till the danger is over. The extreme 

 facility with which birds of the Woodpecker kind defcend as well 

 as afcend the trees, is worthy admiration, feeming to do both 

 with equal eafe to itfelf. I do not find any one who has noticed 

 the colour of the eggs *, but Buffon j- mentions having found a 

 neft with fix young ones in an old decayed afp-tree, thirty feet 

 from the ground. 



Picus medius, Lin. Sjfi. i. p. 176. N° 18. — Scop. I. p. 48. N° 54. — Mull. j 



P- i2- +- MIDDLE 



Le Pic varie, Sri/, orn. iv. p. 38. N° 14. pi. 2. f. 1. SPOTTED 



Pic varie a tete rouge, PL enl. 61 I. 



Middle fpotted Woodpecker, Sr. Zool. N° 86. pi. 37. 



W. 



'"THIS is fomewhat lefs than the laft, being in length only eight Description. 



inches and a half; but in general markings it is much the 

 fame, especially on the back and wings. It differs chiefly in 

 having the whole top of the head crimfon, and round the eyes 



* Willughby obferves, that the eggs of all Woodpeckers are white, as far as has 

 come to his knowledge. 

 t Mi/l. dts oi/. vii. p. 61. 



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