In 1890 picus major, a small, black, and spotted French Magpie, as Devonians call it, was found, but we have no other right to claim it.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
Being perfectly alone, and not discovering any trace of the neighbouring city, I fancied myself existing in the ancient days of Hesperia, and hoped to meet picus in his woods before the evening.
"Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents"
William Beckford
They say that before Mount Aventine was inhabited or enclosed within the walls of the city, two demi-gods, picus and Faunus, frequented the Springs and thick shades of that place; which might be two satyrs, or Pans, except that they went about Italy playing the same sorts of tricks, by skill in drugs and magic, as are ascribed by the Greeks to the Dactyli of Mount Ida.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh