Picus.] AVES INSESSORES. 149 



Found in extensive woods in most parts of the kingdom. Like the 

 last species omnivorous. Has a harsh disagreeable cry. Nest placed 

 in close thickets, formed of sticks and lined with fibrous roots. Lays five 

 or six eggs. 



GEN. 37. NUCIFRAGA, Briss. 



117. N. Caryocatactes, Temm. (Nutcracker.) Ge- 

 neral plumage brown, spotted on the back and under parts 

 with white. 



N. Caryocatactes, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 117. Id. torn. in. 

 p. 67. Nutcracker, Mont. Orn. Diet. Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 368. 

 pi. 33*. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 97. 



DIMENS. Entire length thirteen inches: length of the bill two 

 inches. MONT. 



DESCRIPT. Crown of the head and nape of the neck blackish brown : 

 the rest of the plumage above and below the body rusty brown, spotted 

 with white; the spots on the back guttiform; those beneath disposed 

 longitudinally on each feather, and occupying a larger portion of the 

 ground-colour: vent white: quills and tail black; the latter with a 

 broad white bar at the extremity : irides brown : bill and feet dusky. 

 (Egg.) Pale buff-coloured white : long. diam. one inch three lines ; trans, 

 diam. ten lines and a half. 



Very rare in this country. Has been only observed in three or four 

 instances. One killed near Moyston in Flintshire in October 1753; a 

 second in Kent; a third in Northumberland in the autumn of 1819. 

 Common in some of the mountainous parts of the North of Europe, 

 residing principally in woods. Feeds on seeds and nuts ; also on insects. 

 Said to build in the holes of trees, and to lay five or six eggs. 



GEN. 38. PICUS, Linn. 



118. P. viridis, Linn. (Green Woodpecker.) Plumage 

 above, green ; beneath, greenish ash ; crown and occiput 

 bright red. 



P. viridis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 391. Id. torn. in. p. 280. 

 Green Woodpecker, Mont. Orn. Diet. Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 372. 

 pi. 38. f. 2. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 136. 



DIMENS. Entire length thirteen inches three lines: length of the 

 bill (from the forehead) one inch seven lines, (from the gape) one inch 

 nine lines and a half ; of the tarsus one inch two lines ; of the tail three 

 inches ten lines and a half; from the carpus to the end of the wing six 

 inches four lines ; breadth, wings extended, twenty-one inches. 



DESCRIPT. Crown and occiput bright crimson-red; base of the bill, 

 and region of the eyes, black ; a broad crimson moustache edged with 

 black descending from the corner of the bill : hind part of the neck, back, 

 and wing-coverts, bright green ; rump gamboge-yellow : under parts 



