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PICUS MARTIUS. 
GREAT BLACK WOODPCKER. 
Black; cap vermilion. 
Picus Martius, Lin. Gnfe. 
Le pic Noir, Buffon. 
Great Black Woodpecker, Lath. Don. 
Pen. Mont. 
We have not been able to collect more 
than four well-authenticated instances of 
this bird having been killed in this king- 
dom; two of these were taken in Dorset- 
shire; a third was killed in the winter of 
1805, in Battersea fields; and a fourth 
was shot by Lord Stanley, in Lancashire. 
Nevertheless, as it has been ranged by 
Montagu and others in the list of British 
birds, its portrait, &c. cannot but be ac- 
ceptable to the English Ornithologist. 
The Black Woodpecker measures seven- 
teen inches in length, and is in bulk about 
the size of the jackdaw. 
The female differs from the male in 
having only the hinder part of the head 
