THE GREEN WOODPECKER 
white and highly polished. But one brood is reared in 
the year. 
The adult male Green Woodpecker has the general 
colour of the upper parts olive-green, merging into bright 
yellow on the rump; the lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts 
are black, the cheeks speckled with scarlet ; the crown 
and nape are grey, marked with scarlet ; the wings and 
tail are dark brown, the outer webs of the primaries barred 
with greyish white, the same webs of the secondaries 
olive-green with pale bars; the tail is also barred; the 
under parts are pale greyish green. Bill dark grey ; tarsi 
and toes grey; irides greyish white. Length 13 inches. 
The female has no traces of scarlet on the cheeks. ‘The 
nestling is barred above and below, there is no black on 
the lores and ear-coverts, and the black on the cheeks is 
spotted with brown in young females, with scarlet in 
young males. 
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