GREEN WOODPECKER. 
a. . 
ECLE. LARGE GREEN WOODPECKER. POPINJAY. ! 
ir : WOODSPITE. RAIN-BIRD. RAIN-FOWL. WHITTLE. HIGH 
HOE. HEW-HOLE. PICK-A-TREE. 
: AWL-BIRD. YAPPINGAL. YAFFLE. YAFFER. 
- NICK-A-PECKER. 
a PLATE LIII.—FIG. II. 
Picus viridis, : 4 d : Linnzvs. 
Brachylophus viridis : ; . Swarnson. 
PREPARATIONS for building are commenced even so 
early as February, and the old nest is frequently 
resorted to and repaired. The nest, if decayed wood- 
dust may be called such, is placed at a height of fifteen ee 
or twenty feet from the ground, in a sound hole in a . 
bree. f 
The eggs, four or five, to six or eight in number, 
are bluish white in colour. In the ‘Zoologist,” page 
2229, Alfred Newton, Esq. mentions his having met 
with five eggs of this bird in a nest at Elvedon, near 
Thetford, Norfolk, which were blotted and spotted with 
reddish brown and tawny yellow; and at page 2301, 
he speaks of having been informed of two other similar 
instances, one, or both of them, in the same neighbour- 
hood. . a 
The young are hatched in June. The parents are — 
sedulously devoted to them. 
