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PICUS MEDIUS. 



(MIDDLE SPOTTED WOODPECKER.) 



Picus medius, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 176 (1766). 



Bendrocopus medius, Koch, Syst. d. Baier. Zool. p. 73 (1816). 



Picus cyncedus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 413 (1831). 



Picus quercuum, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 191 (1831). 



Piprvpicus medius, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 8 (1854). 



Picus roseiventris, Brehm, Vollst. Vogelf. p. 70 (1855). 



Picus meridionalis, id. torn. cit. p. 70 (1855). 



Dendrocoptes medius, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Heiri. Th. v. p. 41 (1863). 



Pic mar, French ; Pico, Spanish ; Pica-pau malhado, Portuguese ; de middelste Bonte Specht, 

 Dutch ; der Mittelbuntspeclit, German ; Mellauspet, Swedish. 



Figures notabiles. 



Buff. PL Enl. vii. pi. 611; Naum. Vog. Deutschl. v. Taf. 136, figs. 1, 2; Gould, B. of Eur. 

 iii. pi. 230; Kjterb. Orn. Dan. pi. x. ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 52; Malh. Monogr. Picid. 

 xx. figs. 6, 7, 8 ; Bree, B. of Eur. iii. p. 146. 



6 ad. pileo miniato, fronte fulvescente : facie laterali cum colli lateribus albida, regione auriculari paullo 

 cinerascente, genis magis fulvescentibus : plaga nigra, subtriquetra ad latera colli ima posita, a genis 

 posticis extensa ad caput summum vix conjuneta : dorso toto nigro, uropygio magis cinerascente : 

 scapularibus albis, plumarum parte basali nigra : tectricibus alarum nigris, medianis versus apicem 

 albis, intimis fere omnino albis, plagam magnam formantibus : remigibus nigris, extus albo conspicue 

 maculatis fascias distinctas formantibus : cauda nigra, rectrice extima albo fasciata, penultima irregu- 

 lariter albo notata, proxima tantum versus apicem albo maculata : gutture toto albo : pectore laterali 

 plaga. crescente nigra notato, pectore summo fulvescente : ventre toto pulchre miniato : corpore subtus 

 laterali nigro distinete striato : subalaribus albis, nigro paullo variis : rostro cyanescente, ad basin 

 pallidiore : pedibus plumbeis : iride rufescente. 



5 mari similis, vix dilutior, plaga pectorali nigra vix ita distincta. 



Juv. similis adultis, sed ubique dilutior : ptilosi lanuginosa : pileo postico nigricante vix miniato tincto : subtus 

 flavicans, abdomine pallide miniato. 



Adult male. Crown of tbe head beautiful vermilion, the forehead buffy white ; feathers round and above the 

 eye and the sides of the face generally white, slightly tinged with grey on the ear-coverts, and with pale 

 brown on the cheeks ; on the sides of the neck a kind of triangular patch of black, which reaches from 

 the hind part of the cheeks on to the sides of the chest, and also extends upwards behind the ear-coverts, 

 nearly joining the crown, in some specimens apparently quite doing so; nape and entire back deep 

 black, a little inclining to grey on the rump ; scapulars white, the basal portion of the feathers, which 

 is concealed, blackish ; wing-coverts black, some of the innermost greater and median coverts white at 



