BRITISH BIRDS. 
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verts are white ; the reft of the plumage on the 
upper part of the body is black ; the tail is black, 
the outer feathers marked with white fpots ; the 
throat, breaft, and part of the belly are of a yel- 
lowifh white ; the vent and lower part of the belly 
crimfon ; the legs and feet of a lead colour. The 
female wants the red fpot on the back of the head. 
This bird is common in England. Bufton fays 
that it ftrikes againft the trees with brilker and 
harder blows than the Green Woodpecker It 
creeps with great eafe in all dire&ions upon the 
branches of trees, and is with difficulty feen, as it 
inftantly avoids the fight by creeping behind a 
branch, where it remains concealed. 
THE MIDDLE-SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
(Picas Mediusy Lin . — Le Pic varie a tete Rouge , Buff.) 
This bird is fomewhat lefs than the former, and 
differs from it chiefly in having the top of the head 
wholly crimfon ; in every other refpe£t the colours 
are much the fame, though more obfcure. Buffon 
gives a figure of it in his Planches Enluminees 9 but 
confiders it as a variety only of the former. 
