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GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
| ‘Turs ‘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 gloffy black, 
and the hind part is marked with.a deep rich crimfon 
ipot; the cheeks are white, bounded beneath by a 
black line, which paffes from each corner of the 
mouth, and furrounds the hind part. of the head ; the 
' neck is encircled with black ;' the throat and breaft 
are of a yellowifh white ; the back, ramp, coverts of 
the tail and leffer coverts of the wings, are ‘black, 
The webs of the black quill feathers are elegantly 
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 outermoft 
are black. Thelegsare ofaredcolour. *" ate: 
' The colours of the female are the fame as in the 
male, except the crimfon {pot on the head. = | 7” 
— Soh TE MENC OY — 
"GREEN WOODPECKER. 
O; this bird there are many kinds and varieties, 
forming large colonies, in the forefts of almof every 
part of the werld. The wifdom of providence, in 
the admirable ‘formation of creatures according to 
_ their refpective natures, cannot be better exemplified 
than in the birds of this genus. 
Woodpeckers, ' feeding entirely upon infects, and 
their principal action being Hexen that of climb- 
