Wooprrecker. ZYGODACTYLI. PICUS. 103 
ways in an upward direction. They feed on the various in- 
sects and larve that find a nidus in the bark and decayed 
wood, and which they obtain by means of their strong angu- 
lar bill, and long extensile tongue, armed at the point with 
sharp-reflected bristles. They build in holes of trees, occa- 
sionally of their own formation. Themales are distinguished by 
an occipital band, generally of a red colour, or by moustaches. 
Their moult is simple, and the young differ from the adults 
only during the interval that elapses from quitting the nest 
to the first (or autumnal) moult. Their stomach is membra- 
naceous, and they are without the caecum. 
Green W oodpecker.—Picus viridis, Linn. 
PLATE 88. Fig. 1. 
Picus viridis, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 175. 12.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 433. sp. 12.— 
Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. p. 234. sp. 27.—Raii, Syn. p. 42. A. 2.— Will. 93. 
t. 21.—Briss. 4. p. 9. 1. 
Le Pic vert, Buff: Ois. v. 7. p. 23. t. 1.—Id. Pl. Enl, 371. and 879.—Temm. 
Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 391. 
Grunspecht, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 2. p. 1007.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 
v. 2. p 118.—Frisch. t. 39. 
Green Woodpecker, Br. Zool. 1. No. 84.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 277. B.— 
Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 51.—Wiil. (Ang.) p. 135. t. 21.—-Haye’s Br. 
Birds, t. 18..—Lath. Syn. 2. p. 577. 25.—Id. Supp. p. 110.—Mont. Ornith. 
Dict.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 6.—Don, Br. Birds, 2. t. 37.—Bewick’s Br. 
Birds, 1. p. 116.—Shaw’s Zool. v. 9. p. 183. 
Provincial, Woodspite, Rain Bird, High-Hoec, Hew-Hole, 
Awl Bird, Yappingall, Yaffer, Pepinjay. 
This is a common inhabitant of all the wooded parts of Locality. 
England and Scotland, and is well known by its loud and 
peculiar cry, which, frequently repeated, is supposed to 
prognosticate rain, and from which it has obtained the pro- 
vincial name of the Rain Bird*. ‘The green woodpecker 
* T may take this opportunity of observing, that the habits of animal® 
and birds are perhaps, when thoroughly understood, the best barometers 
we possess. There is no doubt that their bodily temperament, from not 
being acted upon by mental affections, and being preserved by regularity 
of diet in 2 more uniform state, is far more equably susceptible of the ap- 
