. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Vood-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 relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Vood-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 Woodpeckers 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 difiicult 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 withoight or ten species which arc equally red beneath. 86 PICUS STRIOLATUS. THE STRIATED WOOD-PECKER. LKSSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. HICKWALL. Picus minor. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 17G. Picus minor. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 229. Pic ^peichette. Picus minor. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 399. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Mont. Orn. Diet. Picus minor. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Selb. lUustr. L 379. Picus minor. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 151. Male with the forehead white, the crowii, crimson, marginedwith black, the hach and scapulars transversely barred with blackand ichite ; sides of the head and neck white, with a black band;lower parts brownish-white, 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 muc
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