Crass Il. GREAT SPOTTED. 
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L’epeiche, Cul rouge, Pic Picus major. Liz. fy. 176. 85. Great 
rouge. Belon av. 300. Gyllenrenna. Faun. Suec. 
Picus varius, feu albus. Ge/- (fp. 100. 
mer av. 709; Hakke-{fpeet. Brunnich, 40. 
Greater {potted Woodpecker, or Groffes Baumhackl. Kram. 
Witwal. Wil. orn. 137. 330. 
Raii fyn, av. 43. Bunt Specht. Frifch, I. 36. 
Picchio. Zinan. 73. Br. Zool. 79. plate E. 
Le grand Pic varié. Brifoz  Kobilar. Scopoli, No. 53. | 
ag. AV.. 34. 
HIS fpecies weighs two ounces three quat- 
ters : the length is nine inches; the breadth 
is fixteen. The bill is one and a quarter long, 
of a black horn color. The irides are red. The 
forehead is of a pale buff color. The crown of 
the head a glofly black. The hind part marked 
with a rich deep crimfon fpot: the cheeks white ; 
bounded beneath by a black line that paffes from 
the corner of the mouth, and furrounds the hind 
part of the head. The neck is encircled with a 
black color. The throat and breaft are of a yel- 
lowifh white. The vent feathers of a fine light 
crimfon. The back, rump, and coyerts of the tail, 
and leffer coverts of the wings are black ; the 
{capular feathers and coverts adjoining to them are 
white. The quil feathers black, elegantly mark- 
ed on each web with round white fpots. , 
The four middle feathers of the tail are black, 
the next tipt with dirty yellow; the bottoms of 
the 
SPOTTED. 
DESCRIP. 
Lars, 
