NATURAL HISTORY. 
When we contemplate the bird creation, 
we cannot conficler without amazement, how 
varioufly nature has formed their bills, wings, 
feet, and bodies, according to their different 
wants and peculiarities, occafioned either by 
fitiiation or difpofition ; a more ftriking in- 
Itance of which cannot be adduced than in 
the birdjulb deferibed. 
r/ieGKEAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
T H I S bird is about nine inches long, 
fixteen inches in breadth, and two ounces 
three quarters^ in weight. The bill is of a 
black horn colour, and the forehead pale buff; 
the crown of the head is of a glofly black, 
and the hind part is marked with a deep rich 
crimfon fpot ; the cheeks are white, bounded 
beneath' by a black line, which pr.ffes from 
each corner of the mouth, and I'urrounds the 
hind part of the licad; the neck is incircicd 
with black ; the throat and breaft are of ayel- 
lowifli white ; the back, rump, coverts ofthc 
tail, and leffer coverts of the wings, are black. 
The webs of the blade quill feathers are ele- 
gantly marked with round white fpots. The 
four middle feathers of the tail are black;- 
the next are tipped with dirty yellow ; and 
the ends of the two outermoll arc black. The 
legs are of a red colour. 
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