Sc. Obs. The Woodpecker.
1639. Sir R. Gordon, Gen. Hist. Earls Sutherland, 3. In these fforests … steares or stirlings, lair-igigh or knag (which is a foull like unto a paroket or parret, which makes place for her nest with her beck in the oak tree).
1769. De Foe’s Tour Gt. Brit., IV. 261.
