Class II. GREEN WOODPECKER. 



315 



GENUS IX. WOODPECKER. 



Bill straight, strong, angular. 



Nostrils covered with bristles. 



Tongue very long, slender, and armed at the 



end with a sharp bony point. 

 Tail of ten stiff feathers. 

 Feet climbing. 



Picus viridis. P. viridis, vertice 

 coccineo. Lath, lud. om. 234, 

 id. Syn. ii. 577. id. Sup. i. 

 110. 



Le Pic mart, Pic verd, Pic 

 jaulne. Belonav. 2QQ. 



Gesner av. 710. 



Pico verde. Aldr. av. i. 4l6. 



Green Woodpecker, or Wood- 



' spite; called also the Rain 

 Fowl, High Hoe, and Hew- 

 hole. Wil. orn. 135. 



Rati Syn. av. 42. 



Picus viridis. Gm. Lin. 433. 



Le Pic verd. Brissqn av. iv. 9« 



Hist, d'ois. vii. 7- t. i. PI. 1< 



Enl. 371- 879- 

 Wedknar, Gronspik, Grong- 



joling. Faun. Suec. sp. 99. 

 Hasselquist itin. Ter. Sanct. 



291. 

 Girald. Camlrens. 191. 

 Danish & Nor v. Groenspet. 



Br. 39. 

 Grunspecht. Kram. 334. 



Frisch, i. 35. 

 Deteu, Detela. Scopoli. No, 



52. 

 Br. Zool. 78. plate E. Arct, 



Zool. i.325. 



Green, 



X HE wisdom of Providence in the admirable 

 contrivance of the fitness of the parts of ani- 

 mals to their respective nature, cannot be better 

 illustrated than from this genus • which we shall 



