718 PICA RIA2—PICUCULE 
Sitta (NutHATCH), Todus (Topy), Alcedo (KINGFISHER), Merops 
(BEE-EATER), Upupa (Hoopok), Certhia (TREE-CREEPER), Trochilus 
(HUMMING-BIRD). Of this multifarious assembly the 4th, 6th, 
Sth, 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 Ist, they are referred in this 
book to 
PICARLAL, a group of Birds, so named by Nitzsch in 1820 
(Deutsches Arch. fiir Physiol. vi. p. 255) to include the genera 
Coracias, Upupa, Alcedo, Cuculus, Psitiacus, Picus, Yuna, Caprimulgus 
and Cypselus: opposed to his PASSERINA, but not to be confounded 
with 
PICARII, Johannes Miiller’s name (Abhandl. Akad. Berlin, 
1845, p. 3883) for what he separated as the third Tribe of his great 
Order INSESSORES or PASSERINI (the other two being OSCINES and 
TRACHEOPHONES) comprehending the Ampelidw+ and Tyrannide in 
addition to those included, actually or consequentially, in Nitzsch’s 
PICARIA. 
PICI, the name of an Order of Birds proposed in 1810 by 
Meyer and Wolf (Zaschenb. deutsch. Vogelkunde, i. p. 115) to include 
the genera Picus, Yuna, Sitta, Certhia, Merops and Alcedo, the 3rd 
and 4th of which 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 PICKTARN, local names for the Common TERN. 
PICKMIRE, a local name for the PEwir or Black-headed 
GULL. 
PICUCULLE,? a name given, without reason says Buffon (H. NV. 
Ois. vil. p. 82, note), to a bird figured by D’Aubenton (Pl. en. 
621)—the Dendrocolaptes certhia or cayennensis of later writers— 
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 &, 
1 Meaning what are more correctly called Cotingidw (CHATTERER). 
2 Accidentally misspelt (Zncyclop. Brit. ed. 9, iii. p. 748 and perhaps else- 
where) ‘‘Piculule.” It would seem that the inventor coined the word as a 
combination of Picus and Cuculus. Buffon used ‘‘ Pic-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 perhaps any other writer, uses for them collectively 
the name ‘‘ Woodhewer,” which seems unhappily applied, as no species appears 
able to hew wood, and the word is hardly an accurate rendering of Dendrocolaptes. 
