GREEN, AND GREY-HEADED WOOD'FECICER. ^ ^7f 



'Fufilier; and is the moft cunning, and difficult to be fhot, of all the 

 !tribe. 



It does vaft damage to tree«, by making holes of a great depth in Manwers. 

 the bodies to neftle m. A bufhel of dull and chips, a proof of its 

 'labors, are often found at the foot of the tree. Makes as much noife 

 In the operation, as a woodman does with an axe. Rattles with its 

 bill againll the fides of the orifice, till the woods refound. Its note 

 wery loud. -Lays two or three white femi-tranfparent eggs. Feeds on 

 'Caterpillars and infefts, efpecially Ants. 



;B. Green, Br. Zodl. i. N''84. — Latham, i. 577. 



Picus Viridis, Wedknar; Gronfpik, Grongjoling, Faun, Suec, N" 99. — Dif Buffbn, 

 •v'n. 7. — Lev. Mus. 



"IXT With erimfon crown-: green body j lighteft below. Length 

 thirteen inches. 

 Inhabits Europe, as high north as Lapmark, where it is called Zhi- Placso 



mne *. Is found in RuJ^a ; but difappears towards Sibiria-^ 



-. Grhy-headed, Edmt. 6^.^Latham, i. 583. 



\^ With a grey head, and neck of a bkifli grey: noftrik covered 

 with harfh black feathers, extending in a line to the eyes : a 

 4)lack line, beginning at the bafe of the lower mandible, points be- 

 neath the cheeks towards the hind part of the neck : under fide of 

 the body of the color of the head, daflied with gr-een : all other 

 parts fo exaftly like the laft, that I fhould fuppofe it to have been 

 •a variety, had not my very fcientific friend, Pallas, aflured me that 

 it was a dillind fpecies, and inferior in fize to the common Green. 



* Leemt, zpz. 



