504 BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS. 



Time. May and June. 



Remarks. Resident, but its numbers are said 

 to be increased in winter by Continental visitors. 

 Notes : gich-gich, quet-quet, tra, tra, tra. Local 

 and other names : Witwall, Woodnacker, Wood-pie, 

 French-pie, Great Black and White Woodpecker, 

 Spickel-pied Woodpecker. A very close sitter. 



WOODPECKER, GREEN. 



(Gecinns viridis.) 

 Order PICARLE ; Family PICIM: (WOODPECKERS). 



Description of Parent Birds. 

 Length about thirteen inches. 

 Beak rather long, strong, and 

 dusky in colour. Irides greyish- 

 white. Crown, crimson ; neck, 

 back, lesser wing-coverts, and 

 scapulars green ; rump yellow ; 

 upper tail-coverts yellow, tinged 

 with green in parts. Wing- 

 quills dusky, barred and spot- 

 ted with bumsh-white, some of 



GREEN WOODPECKER. the lesser bein g margined with 

 olive-green. Tail-quills dusky, 



barred with greyish-brown, some of them being 

 margined with green. From the base of the beak, 

 round and behind the eyes, the feathers are black. 

 A crimson streak, bordered with black, runs from 

 the gape some little way down the sides of the 

 neck. Chin, throat, breast, and all under-parts pale 

 greyish-green. Legs, toes, and claws ash-colour. 

 The toes are disposed, two in front and two 

 behind, and claws hooked. 



The female has less crimson on her crown, and 



