WOODPECKER, 5 C 7 



Scopoli obferves, that the fhins are plumofe at the bafe. 



Salerns* faysjj this bird is not found in France-, but Buff on PL ace. 



affirms, that it inhabits moft of the provinces there. — The firfl: 

 Gentleman fays likewife, that Frifch does not mention it ; but 

 this is not fad; he indeed fays, it is rare,.. but gives two excellent 

 figures of it f. 



It approaches near habitations in winter, and maybefeen in the 

 orchards adjoining, which,, no doubt, it does for the fake of food ; 

 finding about the trunks of the trees both Caterpillars and Larves of 

 infects of all kinds. Ic builds in an hole of a tree, and often difputes 

 the right of pofTeflion with the little Colemoufe ; which laft, as it is 

 much weaker of the two, mud yield the vi&oty.—Willugbby J,fays, 

 it is called in England by the name of Hickwall. 



Linnaus, in his fynonyms- of this bird, quotes Hajfelquiji || for' 

 the fame; but whoever will diligently read what this author' fays 

 of the matter, will be convinced, that the reference mould be to 

 the greater rather than the lean: of this genus.— It is faid by him 

 to inhabit the higher parts of Afia. 



Mr. Sonnerat % mentions a bird found by hinrV at Antigue, in A Variety-. 

 the ifland'of Panay,. -with-the top of the head, and hind part of 



* Or*, p. 107: f- PI. 37. t Or*, p. 138. 



!| Hajfelquiji fays, that it is the fize of 'a Fieldfare ; that the crown of the female 

 is black ; whereas in this fpecies it is white. — He fays, too, that the vent feathers 

 are red in both fexes ; but in this they are fo in neither : that the breaft, -in the 

 male, is pale ferruginous, with long lines of black ; in the female, plain ; and 

 the rump rofe-coloured in both fexes ; and that- there is a black line from the 

 bill, palling under the eyes, to the hind head. All thefe circumftances convince ' 

 me, that it is the greater fpecies, or at leafr. a variety of it, and by no means the- 

 bird laft treated of above.< — See Hajfelq. Itin. p. 342. N° 21, 



§. Petit Pic d- Antique, Son. Voj. p. 118. pi. 77; 



the 



