PIC us MAJOR. 
rREATER-SPO TTE D JVOOD - PE CKE R . 
Generic Character. ^S^^^ Pic us martins. 
Synonyms. 
Picus MAJOR. Lin. Syft. i. ^ 176. i?- O''^- 
228* 13. 
Greater.Spotted Wood-Pecker. Br.Zool.u^. 
Ihjol -p. 79. tah. £. ^r^. Z^?^?/. 2. 
162. Lath. Syn. 2. p. 564 12. 
y^///. ^. 107. Mont. Orn, Dici. Voh 
2. Berwick's Br. Birds, Ft. 1. p. 142- 
Alhifis Birds, 1. 19. 
This fpecies weighs nearly three ounces; length nine, 
breadth fifteen inches. Bill very ftrong, one inch and a quarter 
long ; irides reddilh ; legs and claws ftrong. Colours of the 
fexes alike except on the head, the upper part of which in 
the female is black. 
The prefent is not fo plentiful as the green wood-pecker, 
though more abundant than either of the other fpecies ; it 
chiefly reforts to fuch thickets as abound in the fofter kinds of 
wood, which it eafily penetrates ; in making choice of a fitua- 
tion to depofit its eggs, it generally feleas a tree that is unfound 
at heart, which it readily difcovers by the found, this it per- 
forates 
