244 MIDDLE WOODPECKER. Czuass Il. 
the two outmoft black ; the upper parts a dirty 
white. The exterior feather marked on each web 
with two black fpots; the next with two on the 
inner web, and only one on the other. The legs 
Femate. are of aleadcolor. The female wants that beauti- 
ful crimfon fpot on the head ;+in other refpeéts the 
colors of both agree. This fpecies is much more 
uncommon than the preceding ; and keeps altoge- 
ther in the woods. 
86. Mipp.is, Picus medius. P. albo nigroque Swec. fp. 82. Scopoli, No. 
varius, criffo pileoque ru- 54. 
bris. Lin. fyf. 176. Faun. Le Pic varie. Briffon av. IV. 
38. 
FAHIS fpecies agrees with the preceding in 
colors and fize, excepting that the crown 
of the head in this 1s of a rich crimfon ; the crown 
of the head in the male of the former black; and 
the crimfon is in form of a bar on the hind part. 
Birds thus marked have been fhot in Lanca/fbire, 
and other parts of England; but I am doubtfull 
whether they are varieties, or diftinét fpecies. 
oe) L 
 Gefner 
