6x WOODPECKER. HOOPOO. GROUS. ^ 



2-,-,^ The Green Woodpecker inhabits tlie wooden fteeples of Sweden^, 



as well as trees.— Mn Oedman. 



2%f The Hoopoo is called the Harfogel, or Soldier-bird, not from its 



creft but its note, uttering, as it runs on the ground, the note cpp, cpp, opp, 

 ' thrice repeating it, then haftens moft fwiftly to another fpot, and re- 

 peats the fame. Opp, in the Swedijh language, fignifies the fame as Ta 

 Arms ! hence this bird has been ftyled the omen of war. — Mr. Oedman. 



^12. The Great Grous* is very eafily tamed if taken young, and is 



fed with corn. The males, in a domeftic ftate, emit the fame note all 



the year, which in a wild ftate they only ufe in the feafon of love. 



When a cock of this fpecies is fhot in the woods, its widows are heard 



to utter a note inexpreflibly miferable at their lofs. In the love feafon 



the females have been found fo greatly overpowered with the all-ruling 



' paffion, as to lay themfelves on the ground, foliciting the company of 



the males, with their ufual note ; and fo intent on the expefted joys, 



as to negleft their own fafety fo much, that the peafants have adlually 



taken them up in their hands, — Mr. Oedman. 



■^lA, The Spurious Grous, ov Rackkhanen of the Swedes, is a breed 



between the cock of the Black Grous, and a female of the Great Grous ; 

 its note partakes of both fpecies. It is rcftlefs, conftantly moving from 

 tree to tree ; is therefore hated by fportfmen, as it gives other birds 

 notice of their approach. This variety is well figured by Doftor 

 Sparman, in his Miifeum Carljonianum, tab. xv. — P., 



^14. The Black Grous in the winter-time fills its craw with the catkins 



of the birch, before it retires under the fnowj and by this means can 

 fuftain life feven days without any other food. — Mr, Oedman. 



• I change the trivial, wood to that of great, as it is not peculiar to this, fpecies 

 to inhabit woods^ 



The 



