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GREEN WOODPECKER. 



ECLE. LARGE GREEN WOODPECKER. POPINJAY. WOODSPITE. RAIN-BIRD. 



RAIN-FOWL. WHITTLE. HIGH HOE. HEW-HOLE. 

 PICK-A-TREE. AWL-BIRD. YAPPINGAL. YAFFLE. YAFFER. NICK-A-PECKER. 



PLATE LIII. FIG. II. 



Picus viridis, 

 Bracliylophus viridis, 



LlNNJEUS. 

 SWAINSON. 



PREPARATIONS for building are commenced even so early as February, 

 and the old nest is frequently resorted to and repaired. The nest, 

 if decayed wood-dust may be called such, is placed at a height of 

 fifteen or twenty feet from the ground, in a sound hole in a tree. 



The eggs, four or five, to six or eight in number, are bluish white 

 in colour. In the 'Zoologist/ page 2229, Alfred Newton, Esq. 

 mentions his having met with five eggs of this bird in a nest at 

 Elvedon, near Thetford, Norfolk, which were blotted and spotted with 

 reddish brown and tawny yellow; and at page 2301, he speaks of having 

 been informed of two other similar instances, one, or both of them, in 

 the same neighbourhood. 



The young are hatched in June. The parents are sedulously 

 devoted to them. 



