222 PICIN^E. YUNX. 



yellow, tinged with grey, faintly barred behind with dusky. 

 Female similar, but without red on the cheek. Young grey- 

 ish-green above, the upper part of the head grey, spotted with 

 crimson, the lower parts greenish-white, transversely barred 

 with dusky. 



Male, 13J, 21, 6J, 1 T ^, 1 T ,, 1, if. Female, 13, 21. 



The Green Woodpecker does not occur in any part of Scot- 

 land, but is common, and permanently resident in most of the 

 wooded districts of England. Besides searching trees for larvae 

 and insects, it often betakes itself to the ground to seek for 

 insects, and particularly ants, and their eggs. In the breed- 

 ing season it emits a noise resembling a shout of laughter, as 

 well as a remarkable sound supposed to be produced by tap- 

 ping with its bill on some decayed and sonorous branch. The 

 eggs, five in number, and pure white, are laid in a hole dug 

 for the purpose in decayed wood. 



Hewhole. Woodwall. Woodspite. Yaffler. Yappingale. 

 Popinjay. Rainbird. 



Picus viridis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 175. Picus viridis, Temm. 

 Man. d'Ornith. i. 391. Picus viridis, Green Woodpecker, 

 MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iii. 91. 



GENUS LXXV. YUNX. WRYNECK. 



Bill rather short, slender, straight, tapering, acute ; upper 

 mandible with the dorsal line almost straight, the ridge con- 

 vex toward the end, the sides sloping, the edges sharp, with- 

 out notch or sinus, the tip acute ; lower mandible with the 

 angle long, the dorsal line straight, the tip acute ; gape-line 

 straight. Mouth rather narrow ; tongue extremely extensile, 

 vermiform, with its terminal part horny, flat tapering, with- 

 out bristles. Nostrils linear, nasal membrane large, and an- 

 teriorly bare. Eyes of moderate size. Head oblong, flat- 

 tened in front ; neck short ; body rather slender. Feet short, 

 rather slender ; tarsus feathered anteriorly a little below the 

 joint, compressed, with seven anterior and as many smaller 

 posterior scutella ; toes two before, parallel, united at the 

 base ; two behind, the first very small, the fourth almost as 

 long as the third ; claws moderate, arched, extremely com- 

 pressed, laterally grooved, acute. Plumage very soft ; wings 

 moderately long, straight, rather acute, of twenty feathers ; 

 first quill extremely small, third longest ; tail rather long, 



