146 PICID^E. 



nent from Scandinavia and Russia to Spain, Provence, 

 Italy and Sicily. The editor of the last edition of Penn- 

 ant's British Zoology, says, that it is also found in the 

 wooded districts of Greece, but not on the eastern side 

 of that country, which is bare of trees. 



Dr. Dickson and Mr. Ross have found this species in 

 great numbers at Trebizond, and have shot them in the 

 country between Trebizond and Erzeroom. 



The adult male has the beak of a dark horn-colour, 

 almost black, the base of the lower mandible only being 

 nearly white ; the feathers over the nostrils, on the lore, 

 and round the eye, black ; the crown of the head and 

 the occiput bright scarlet ; the irides white, tinged with 

 pale straw colour ; from the base of the lower mandible 

 a mustache extends backwards and downwards, formed of 

 black feathers, with a brilliant scarlet patch along the 

 middle of it ; the neck, back, wings, wing-coverts, and 

 scapulars, dark green, tinged with yellow ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts sulphur yellow ; wing-primaries greyish black, 

 spotted with white along the whole of the outer web, and 

 on the proximal half of the inner web ; the secondaries and 

 tertials uniformly green on the outer web, greyish black 

 spotted with dull white on the inner web ; tail-feathers 

 long, stiff, and pointed, the middle pair the longest, the 

 others graduated, in colour greyish black, indistinctly barred 

 across with dull greyish white ; the whole of the under 

 surface of the body ash green ; legs, toes, and claws, 

 black. 



The whole length about thirteen inches. From the 

 carpal joint to the end of the wing, six inches and a half: 

 the first quill-feather short, the second shorter than the 

 seventh, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth, nearly equal, but 

 the fourth the longest in the wing. 



