. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . AVood-pecker, Picus varius major, to distinguish it from the otherpied European species ; and Linnaeus, agreeably to the binarynomenclature which he employed, rejected the term varius orspotted, and gave it the specific name of major. This appella-tion, however, is obviously inadmissible, as the bird is not thelargest of the spotted or pied spec
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . AVood-pecker, Picus varius major, to distinguish it from the otherpied European species ; and Linnaeus, agreeably to the binarynomenclature which he employed, rejected the term varius orspotted, and gave it the specific name of major. This appella-tion, however, is obviously inadmissible, as the bird is not thelargest of the spotted or pied species, and much less is it thelargest of the AVoodpeckers in general, as the name would have therefore changed the specific name to Pipra, which issaid by Aldrovandi and others to have been that given it byAristotle. It is difficult to find a good English name for it,but that which I have employed may answer our purpose, andhas the advantage of not being new. The name Red-bellied,which might distinguish it from our other species, has beengiven to an American Woodpecker, and I am acquainted witheight or ten species which are equally red beneath. 8() PICUS STRIOLATUS. THE STRIATED WOOD-PECKER. LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. HICKWALL. Picus minor. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 17G. Picus minor. Lath. Tnd. Orn. L 229. Pic epeichette. Picus minor. Temm. Man. dOrn. L 399. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Mont. Orn. Diet. Picus minor. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Selb. Illustr. L 379. Picus minor. Lesser Sj)otted Woodpecker. Jen, Brit. Vert. An. 151. Male with the forehead white, the croicn crimson, marcfhiedicith hlack, the hack and scapulars transversehj barred iiith blackand white ; sides of the head and neck tchite, with a black band ;lower parts broicnish-ichite, breast and sides icith longitudinaldusky lines. Female similar, but with the crown white. Male.—This species, which is of less frequent occurrence thanthe last, being confined to the southern and middle parts ofEngland, is
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