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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