240 



GREEN WOODPECKER. Class IL 



VIT.WOOD- Strait ftrong angular BILL. Noflrils covered with 

 PECKER. _ briftles. 



TONGUE very long, flender, and armed at the 



point with a (liarp bony point. 

 TEN ftifF feathers in the tail. 

 Climbing feet. 



84. Green. Le Pic mart, Pic verd, Pic 

 jaulne. Bclon av. 299. 



Gc/ner a<v. 710. 



Pico verde. JUr. a^v. I. 416. 



Green Woodpecker, or Wood- 

 fpite ; called alfo the Rain 

 Fowl, High Hoe, and Hew- 

 hole. WH. orn. 135. 



Rail fyn. au. 42. 



Le Pic verd. Brijfon a'v. 4. 9. 



Picus viridis. Lin.fyjl, 175. 



Wedknar, Gronfpik, Grong- 



joling. Faun. Suec.fp. 99. 

 HaJJelquiJi itin. Ter, San^, 



291. 

 Girald. Cambrens, 191. 

 Danijh & Nor-u. Groenfpet. 



Br. 39. 

 Grunfpecht. Kram. 334. 



Frifch, I. 35. 

 Br. ZooL 78. plate E. 

 Deteu, Detela. Scopoli, No. 



THE v^ifdom of Providence in the admirable 

 contrivance of the fitnefs of the parts of ani- 

 mals to their refpedlive nature, cannot be better 

 illuftrated than from this genus: which we fhall 

 give from the obfervations of our illuftrious coun- 

 tryman Mr. Ray*, 



Thefe birds feed entirely on infedls : and thei" 

 principal adion is that of climbing up and do^n 

 the bodies or boughs of trees : for the firft pupofe 



* Ray on the Creation, p. 143, 



they 



