[Case 66.] 
[Case 67. ] 
104 BIRD GALLERY. 
peculiar type of coloration. The large genus Dendrocopus is represented 
in England by two species, the Greater Spotted Woodpecker (D. major) 
(1518) [| Pl. XXIJ.] and the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (D.minor) (1522), 
the latter being shown with its nesting-hole on the floor of the Case. 
Another species, which is said to have been twice procured in England, 
is the American Hairy Woodpecker (D. villosus) (1528). ‘Two well- 
known European birds are the Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides 
tridactylus) (1524), representing a genus in which the first toe is 
wanting, and the Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocoptes medius) 
(1520), noteworthy as having the sexes almost alike in plumage, the 
crown of the female being only slightly less brilliant m colour. The 
smallest members of the Picine belong to the genus Jyngipicus (1525) , 
and among the largest forms will be noted the Great Black Woodpecker 
(Picus martius) (1518) of N. Europe, the still larger Ivory-billed Wood- 
peckers of America, of which the Mexican species (Campophilus 
imperialis) (1511) is shown, and the Great Slaty Woodpecker (Hemi- 
lophus pulverulentus) (1495) from the Indo-Malayan countries. 
The second subfamily Picumnine includes about forty very small 
Woodpeckers known as Piculets, with the tail-feathers very short and 
rounded, They are distributed over Central and South America, West 
Africa, and the Indian region. Representatives of two of the four 
genera recognised will be found in Hargitt’s Piculet (Picumnus un- 
dulatus) (1515) from Guiana, and the Rufous Piculet (Sasta ochracea) 
(1514) from North India and Burma, the latter possessing only three 
toes, the first being absent. 
Of the Wrynecks, representing the third subfamily Jyngine, four 
species are known, all included in one genus, Iynv, They are charac- 
terised by their long tail, composed of soft flexible feathers, and by 
their mottled plumage somewhat similar to that of the Nightjar. The 
Common Wryneck or ‘ Cuckoo’s-mate” (J. torguilla) (1516), a well- 
known summer-visitor to Great Britain, is found throughout almost 
the whole of Europe and Asia and migrates southwards in winter to 
India and Africa. As a nesting-site it makes use of any convenient 
hole in a tree, or occasionally in an earth-cutting or sand-bank. Its 
food, which consists largely of ants, is mostly procured on the ground. 
The other species, one of which (J. pectoralis) (1517) is shown, are 
confined to Atrica and have the fore-neck and chest rufous. 
amily V. Bucconipa. Purr-Birps. 
The Puff-birds are mostly dull-coloured birds, and natives of Central 
and South America. ‘They differ from the Woodpeckers in various 
anatomical characters, and may be recoguised externally by their stout 
