172 PICIDiE. 



The female has the colours less brilliant, and the 

 crown wholly black ; but at a certain age has a small 

 patch of red on the crown. The young male like 

 the female. This species lays five or six pure white 



eggs. 



GENUS CCXXVIII— YUNX, Linne. WR\^tECK. 



Rostrum basi pluraulis ob- 

 tectum, conico-longum, te- 

 retiusculum, acuminatum. 



lAngua longissima, teres, 

 lumbriciformis. 



Nares concavae, denudatae. 



Beak clotlied at the base, 

 elongated-conic, rounded, 

 acuminated. 



Tongue very long, rounded, 

 worm-like. 



Nostrils concave, naked. 



Sp, 1. Yu. Torquilla. Steph. v. 'va.p. 148. pi. 48. — Britain and 



Europe. 

 Sp. 2. Yu? Caycnnensis. 



Pious minutus. Steph. v. ix. p. 211. pi. 30. — Cayenne. 



GENUS CCXXIX.— PICUMNUS, Temminck. 



I CANNOT find that M. Temminck has characterized 

 this genus, neither am I acquainted with the type, 

 which may probably be the last-mentioned bird, the 

 Yunx ? Cayennensis. The genus is introduced here 

 in accordance with the views of Mr. Vigors, who places 

 it next to the foregoing in his arrangement of the 

 Genera of Birds. 



