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ORD. II. GEN. VIT. WOODPECKER. 
SPE. I. GREEN WOODPECKER, 
PI. 46. 
Picus viridis. Lin. Syf. I. p: 175. 
Le pic verd. Brif. Orn. IV. p. 9. 
This fpecies is next in fize to the preceding, meafuring thirteen inches in 
length, and weighing fix ounces and half. The bill is dufky: the eyes of two 
colours, the inner circle reddifh, the outer white: the crown of the head and 
chin a beautiful afh colour, ftudded with fcarlet fpots ; fides of the head and 
throat blackifh: the reft of the plumage, for the moft part, olive green, verg- 
ing towards yellow on the rump: the under parts of the body greenifh white ; 
quills dufky, fpotted with dull white: tail greenifh, with dufky bars, and all the 
feathers black at the end except the outermoft: legs greenith afh colour. 
The female differs from the male only in wanting the red on the chin. She 
lays five or fix eggs in the hollow of a decayed tree, to which fhe ufually makes 
a paflage herfelf, affifted by the male; their ftrong bills enabling them to bore 
through the remaining fhell of found timber, and while they are thus at work, 
they may be heard at a confiderable diftance. 
The egg is reprefented at Fig. 1, Pl. XI. 

