178 SPOTTED WOODPECKER. Clafs II. 



Defer, beautiful femitranfparent white. This kind weighs 

 fix ounces and a half. Its length is thirteen inches ; 

 the breadth twenty and a half : the bill is dufky, tri- 

 angular, and near two inches long : the crown of the 

 head is crimfon, fpotted with black. The eyes are 

 furrounded with black, beneath v/hich (in the males 

 only) is a rich crimfon mark. The back, neck, and 

 leffer coverts of the wings are green. The rump of 

 a pale yellow. The greater quil feathers are dufky, 

 fpotted on each fide with white. The tail confifts of 

 ten llifF feathers, whofe ends are generally broken as 

 the bird refts on them in climbing •, their tips are 

 black : the reft of each is alternately barred with 

 duflcy and deep green. The whole under part of the 

 body is of a very pale green ; and the thighs and vent 

 marked with dufky lines. The legs and feet are of a 

 cinereous green. 



II. The GREATER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



L'epeiche, Cul rouge, Pic rouge. Le grand Pic varie. Brijfon av. 



Belon a^j. 300. iv, 34. 



Picus varius, feu albus. Gefner Picus major. Lin.fyft. \j6. 



fioi. 709. GyWtntenndi. Faun. Suec. /p. 100. 



Greater fpotted Woodpecker, or Hakke-fpeet. Brtmnich ^o. 



Witwal, Wil. orn. i-i,-]. GrofTes Baumhackl. iTmOT, 336. 



Raiifyn.a'u. 43. Br. Zool. 79. plate E. 

 Picchio. Zinan. 73. 



Defer. 'Tp HIS fpecies weighs two ounces three quarters ; 



■*• the length is nine inches : the breadth is fixteen. 



The bill is one inch 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 gloHy black. 



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