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GREATER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus major.) 



P. albo nigroque varius, crisso occipite rubris. 

 Woodpecker varied with black and white, vent and back of the 

 head red, 



Picus major. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 176. 17. — Lin. Faun. Suec. 100. 



—Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 436 — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 228. 13. 

 Picus varius majore. Briss. 4. 34. 13. 



L'Epeiche, ou Pic varie. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 57. — Buff. 



PL Enl. 196. male. 595. female. 

 Greater spotted Woodpecker. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 85. — Pen. 



Arct. Zool. 2. 162. — Leivin. Brit. Birds. 47. — Id. 8, 3. (ovum.) 



— Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 564. 12. — Lath. Sup. 107 . — Montague. 



Brit. Birds. 2. — Mont. Sup. — Betvick. Brit. Birds. 118. 

 j8. albo nigroque varius, crisso pileoque rubris. 

 Varied with black and white, vent and top of the head red. 

 Picus medius. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 176". 18. — Lin. Faun. Suec. 



101.— Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 436.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 229. 14. 

 Picus varius. Briss. 4. 38. 14. t. 2.f. 1. 

 Pic varie a tete rouge. Buff. PI. Enl. 6ll. 

 Middle spotted Woodpecker. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 86. 37. — Ben. 



Arct. Zool. 2. 278. D. — Levoin. Brit. Birds. 48. — Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 2. 565. 13. — Lath. Sup. 107. — Betvick. Brit. Birds, h 



119. — Montague. Brit. Birds. 2. 



The greater and middle spotted Woodpeckers 

 of authors were formerly considered distinct from 

 each other, but latterly, as we are informed in the 

 supplement to the Ornithological Dictionary, they 

 have been most satisfactorily proved the same, as 

 a nest was taken with five young, which were 

 found to be P. medius, just as they were about to 

 leave it, and which were fed and attended to by P. 



