340 WOODPECKER. 



may often be found a bushel of dust, and bits of wood. The female 

 lays two or three white eggs; which colour, as Willughby observes, 

 is peculiar to the whole of the Genus. 



I have sufficient authority to say, that it has three or four times 

 been met with in England at least; our late Friend, Mr. Tunstall, 

 informed me, it had been sometimes seen in Devonshire ; and Dr. 

 Pulteney mentions its being shot in the nursery gardens at Blandford, 

 also at Whitechurch, and other places in Dorsetshire ; one was killed 

 in Lancashire, by Lord Stanley; and Colonel Montagu was told of 

 another, shot on an old willow tree, in Battersea Fields, a few miles 

 from London. 



2— GREATER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



Picus major, Ind. Orn. i. 228. Lin. i. 176. Gm. Lin. i. 436. Faun. Suec. No. 100. 



Scop. Ann. i. No. 53. Bran. No. 40. Midler, No. 99. Kram. 335. Georgi. 165. 



Sepp Vog. t. p. 41- Bor. Nat. Yi. 137. Decouv. russ. ii. 143. Hist. Prov.i. 184. 



Hasselq. It. 342. No. 21 ? Tern. Man. d'Orn. 241. Id. Ed.Yi.p. 396. Nat .Misc. 



pi. ISO. 

 Picus varius major, Rail, p. 43. A. 4. Will. p. 9. t. 21. Bris.iv. 34. 7rf.8vo.iL 51. 



Germ. 1. 167. 168. Gen. Zool. ix. 163. pi. 33. 

 Picus discolor, Frisch. t. 36. Klein. 27. 6. Id. Stem. p,5. t. 4. f. 3. a. c. d. e. Id. Ov. 



p. 17. t. 4. f.3. 

 L'Epeiche, ou Pic varie, Buf. vii. p. 57. PL enl. 196. 595. 

 Grosse Rothspecht, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 61. Wirsing Vog. t. 58. 

 Piccio, Zinnan.Uov. 73. t. 11. f. 64. 

 Bunter Specht, Naturf. ix. s. 55. 

 Greater Spotted Woodpecker, Gen. Syn.W. 564. Id. Sup. p. 107. Br. Zool. i. No. 85. 



Id. fol. 79. t. E. Id. 1812. i. 319. pi. 41. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 162. Albin,\. 1. 19. 



Will. Engl. 137. pi. 21. Collins Birds, pi. 3. f. 7. & pi. 5. f. 10. Hayes Br. Birds, 



t. 9. Bewick, i. pi. p. 118. Lewin Birds, t.47. Trf. Eggs, t. viii. f.3. Donov. ii. 



pi. 37. Wa/cot\. t.48. Pult. Dorset,^. Q. Nat. Misc. pi. 180. Ornith. Dict.fy Supp. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length nine inches ; weight two ounces 

 and three quarters. Bill thirteen lines long, blackish, with a horn- 



