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MIDDI.K srOlTKI) ’WOODPECKER, 
major ; Icad-colourcd at tlic root, bluish black at the 
tip. 
The female differs from the male only in having the 
colours of the head less bright, and the streak from the 
gape greyish and more indistinct. 
The young male much resembles the female. 
My figure of this bird is from Gould’s ‘‘Birds of 
Europe,” pi. 250; that of the egg is from Skania, 
Sweden, sent me by Mr. AVheelwright. 
This bird has also been figured by Buffon, pi. enl. 
611; Vieillot, Diet., pi. 26; Roux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 61; 
(adult male;) Naumann, Vogel Deutsch, pi. 136, (male 
and female;) Sepp, ISTederl. Vog., vol. 4, pi. 637, (male;) 
Storr, deg. ucc., pi. 166, (male,) as Picchio vario sarto. 
Pious tridactylus, Linnaeus, Apterrus tridactylus, 
Swainson, Picoides Europceus, Lesson, Picoides tridac- 
tylus, Gray. — This bird has been described and figured 
by Mr. Morris, in his “History of British Birds.” I 
think its claims to be considered British very doubtful, 
but having appeared in the above work, it will not 
fall within the scope of mine. 
Mr. MTieelwright says of this bird, in a private letter, 
“It is scarcely so common anywhere in Sweden as any 
of the others; but in Lapland it is the commonest of 
all the species. It comes into Wermcrland in the 
winter, but does not I think breed with ns. It has 
never been seen in Skania, although it has once been 
shot in Denmark. It is not shy, and prefers level to 
rocky woods.” 
“In the winter all the Wodpcckers in our forests 
secrete themselves by day in holes of trees.” 
“In all the AToodpcclcers the colours appear to grow 
more distinct with age,” 
