220 piciN^. picus. 
iiistances. Two specimens in my collection, were shot near 
Nottingham. 
Picus martins, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 173. — Picus martins, 
Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. 390. — Picus martins. Great Black 
Woodpecker, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iii. 77- 
142. Picus PiPRA. Pied Woodpecker. 
Male with the upper part of the head, the hack, and a band 
on the side of the neck, bluish-black ; a patch of crimson on 
the hind head ; a broad band of white over the forehead and 
under the eye, a patch on the side of the neck, a narrow line 
over the eye, and the scapulars, white ; the lower parts brown- 
ish-white, excepting the abdomen and lower tail-coverts, 
which are crimson. Pemale similar, but with the occiput 
black, the white parts tinged with yellow, and the lower pale 
brown. Young with the black parts tinged with brown, and 
the top of the head crimson. 
Male, 9^, l7j» 1, y^^. Female, 9^, 16^. 
The Pied, or Greater Spotted Woodpecker, is extensively 
distributed in England and Scotland, as well as in Ireland. 
It is permanently resident, frequents woods and plantations, 
especially those of beech and pine, feeding on insects and 
larvse, which it obtains in the decayed bark and wood. The 
eggs are placed in a hole formed in a tree, without any other 
nest than chips of wood. They are generally five, pure white, 
glossy, elliptical, one inch and a twelfth in length, and nine- 
twelfths in breadth. 
Greater Spotted Woodpecker. Whitwall. Wood-pie. 
French Pie. 
Picus major, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 176. — Picus major, Temm. 
Man. d’Ornith. i. 395. — Picus Pipra, Pied Woodpecker, Mac- 
Gillivray, Brit. Birds, iii. 80. 
143. Picus striolatus. Striated Woodpecker. 
Male with the forehead white, the crown crimson, margined 
with black, the back and scapulars transversely barred with 
black and white ; sides of the head and neck white, with a 
black band ; lower parts brownish- white, breast and sides with 
longitudinal dusky lines. F emale similar, but with the crown 
white. 
Male, 5-J, 10, 3-^, 
This species occurs in most of the southern, eastern, and 
midland counties of England, extending as far north as Derby, 
and westward to Shrewsbury and Hereford. Its habits are 
