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the two middle tail-feathers barred with white on 

 each web, the next only on the outer, and the 

 outmost dotted with white the whole length of the 

 exterior margin. This bird is said to feed on 

 the capsicum when there is a deficiency of insect 

 food, and to be very common in the woods of 

 Carolina and Jamaica. 



GREEN WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus viridis.) 



P. viridis, vertice coccineo. 



Green Woodpecker, with a scarlet crown. 



Picus viridis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 175. 12. Lin. Faun. Suec. 99. 



Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 433. Briss. 4. 9. 1. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1, 



234. 27. 

 Pic verd. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 7. \.-Bujf. PL Enl. 371. 



male. 879- female. 

 Green Woodpecker. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 84. Pen. Arct. Zool. 



2. 277. B. Albin. 1. IS. Phil. Tram. 29. 350. 1. Lenin. 



Brit. Birds. 2.51.8.54. (ovum.) Mont. Brit. Birds. 2. 



Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 11 6. Don. Brit. Birds. 2. Lath. 



Gen. Syn. 2. 577. 15. Lath. Sup. 110. 



THE Green Woodpecker is in length thirteen 

 inches : beak two inches, dusky, and triangular : 

 irides white, with two circles, the inner one red- 

 dish : crown of the head crimson ; the feathers 

 tipped with ash-colour: eyes surrounded with 

 black; beneath which, in the male is a crimson 

 spot bordered with black, in the female wholly 

 black: neck, back, lesser wing- coverts and sca- 

 pulars, green: rump pale yellow: quills dusky, 



