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PICUS VIRIDIS. THE GREEN WOODPECKER. 



HEWHOI.E. WOODWALL. WOODSPITE. YAFFLER. YAPPINGALE. POPINJAY. 



RAINBIRD. 



Fig. 206. 



Picus viridis. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 175. 



Picus viridis. Lath. Ind. Om. I. 234. 



Green Woodpecker. Mont. Om. Diet. 



Pic vert. Picus viridis. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 391. 



Green Woodpecker. Picus viridis. Selb. Illustr. I. 372, 



Picus viridis. Green Woodpecker. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 148. 



Male icith the upper parts yellowish-green, the rump greenish- 

 yellow ; the upper part of the head and hind-neck crimson, the 

 loral and orbital spaces, and a mystachial hand, black, the latter 

 tcith a crimson patch ; the lower parts pale greenish-yellow, 

 tinged loith grey, faintly barred behind with dusky. Female 

 similar, but without red on the cheek. Young greyish-green 

 above, the upper part of the head grey, spotted with crimson, the 

 lower parts greenish-white, transversely barred with dusky. 



Male. — The Green Woodpecker, which is about the size of 

 a Jay, and remarkable for its Hvely colours and great activity, 

 is of a moderately stout and rather elongated form, ^vith the 



