7i8 PICA RJ^— PIC UCULE 



Sitta (Nuthatch), Todus (Tody), Alcedo (Kingfisher), Merops 

 (Bee-eater), Upupa (Hoopoe), Certhia (Tree-Creeper), Trochilus 

 (Humming-bird). Of this multifarious assembly the 4th, 6th, 

 8th, 9th, 10th, 16th and 21st are now almost unanimously referred 

 to the Order Passeres, while the disposition of the rest cannot be 

 accounted fixed, though, except the 1st, they are referred in this 

 book to 



PICARI^, a group of Birds, so named b}^ Nitzsch in 1820 

 (Deutsches Arch, fur Physiol, vi. p. 255) to include the genera 

 Coracias, Upupa, Alcedo, Cuculus, Psittacus, Picus, Yunx, Cajmrnulgus 

 and Cypselus : opposed to his Passerine, but not to be confounded 

 with 



PICARH, Johannes Miiller's name {Abhandl. Akad. Berlin, 

 1845, p. 383) for what he separated as the third Tribe of his great 

 Order Insessores or Passerini (the other two being OsciNES and 

 Tracheophones) comprehending the Ampelidse ^ and Tyrannidse in 

 addition to those included, actually or consequentially, in Nitzsch's 

 PlCARI^. 



PICI, the name of an Oi'der of Birds proposed in 1810 by 

 Meyer and Wolf (Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelkunde, i. p. 115) to include 

 the genera Picus, Yunx, Sitta, Certhia, Merojjs and Alcedo, the 3rd 

 and 4th of Avhich are truly Passerine. Such modern systematists 

 as retain the term limit it to the Woodpeckers and Wrynecks. 



PICKCHEESE, a common local name of the Blue Titmouse. 



PICKET and PICKTAEN, local names for the Common Tern. 



PICKMIRE, a local name for the Pewit or Black-headed 

 Gull. 



PICUCULE,^ a name given, without reason says Buffon (R. N. 

 Ois. vii. p. 82, note), to a bird figured by D'Aubenton {PI. enl. 

 621) — the Dendrocolaptes certhia -or cayennensis of later ^mters — 

 continued by Vieillot in 1816 {Analyse, p. 45), and retained in 

 1820 by Temminck {Man. d'Orn. ed. 2, i. p. Ixxxi.) in a generic 

 sense, while it was used as English in Griffith's translation of 

 Cuvier's Animal Kingdom in 1829 (ii. p. 350), and is here adopted 

 for want of a better,^ as that of the large Family of Tracheophon^, 



^ Meaning what are more correctly called Cotingidaz (Chatterer). 



- Accidentally misspelt {Encydop. Brit. ed. 9, iii. p. 743 and perhaps else- 

 where) "Piculule." It would seem that the inventor coined the word as a 

 combination of Piciis and Ciccultis. Buffon used '^ Fic-grimpereau," which is just 

 as misleading. 



^ Mr. Hudson, who {Argent. Orn. i. pp. 165-202) tells more of the habits of 

 the birds of this Family than perhaj^s any other writer, uses for them collectively 

 the name " Woodhewer," which seems unhappily applied, as no species apj^ears 

 able to hew wood, and the word is hardly an accurate rendering of Dendrocolaptes. 



