XfS GREEN WOODPECKER. Clafs 



Genus V, WOODPECKERS, 



I. TheGREEN WOODPECKER. 



Le Pic mart. Pic verd, Pic jaulne. 



Belon. anj. 299. 

 Gefner anj. 7 1 0. 

 Picoverde, Aldr. av. i. 416. 

 Green Woodpecker, or Wood- 



fpite ; called alfo the Rain 



Fowl, High Hoe, and Hew- 



hole. Wil. orn. I3y 

 Jlaii fyn. av. 42. 

 Le Pic verd. BriJJhn av. 4. g. 



Picus viridis. Lift. fyfl. I'l;. 

 Wedknar, Gronfpik, Giong= 



joling. Faun, Suec. fp, 99. 

 Hajfelquifi itin. Ter, San3. 29 1 . 

 Girald. Cambrejis. 19I. 

 Danijh & Nor'v. Groenfpet. Br, 



39- 

 Grunfpecht. Kram. 334. 



Br. ZooL 78. plate E. 



y^'^HE wifdom of providence in the admirable 

 ' -A. contrivance of tlie fitnefs of the parts of ani- 

 mals to their refpeflive nature, cannot be better illuf- 

 trated than from this genus : which we fhall give- 

 from the obfervations of our illuftrious countrymaq 



Thefe birds feed entirely on infers : and their 

 principal aftion is that of climbing up and down 

 the bodies or boughs of trees : for the firft purpofe 



ar.d the Roller, another bird of this clafs, was killed near Helflon^ 

 hridgcs Corfinxiall, in the autumn 1766. It is alfo a native of Ger~ 

 many ; and is far the moft beautiful of the European birds; as a^. 

 acquaintance with thefe wanderers may be agreeable to our readers, 

 we have given its figure as well as that of the former. ' The 

 one is copied from Mr. Ed'wards', the Other from a drawipg by 

 Failicu. Vide appendix. 



* B-aj on £ht creation, p. 143. 



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