PLATE XXXVII. 



Green Woodpecker. Albln. I, pi. 18. 



Br. Zool.l. N°8 4 . 



Ara. Zool. II. />. 277. B. 



£«*£» C^w. ty». II. f, 577. N 9 2> 

 Woodfpite, Rain fowl. 



High-hoe, Hew-hole. Will. Orn. p. 135. r. 21. 

 Le Pic verd. J5n}C Gr«. 4. />. 9. N° I, 



jBa^I 0//: 8. />. 7. />/. I.— PA enl 371. 879, 

 Le Pic mart, Pic verd, 

 Pic jaulne. Belon. av. 299. 

 Grun-fpecht, Frifch. t. 35. Kramer. 334. 

 Wedknar, Gronfpik. 

 Grongjoling. Faun. Suec. fp. gg. 



This fpecies is thirteen Inches in length, weight fix ounces and an 

 half. The female has no red mark on the lower jaw; Frifch and 

 Klein obferve they have no red on the crown of the head ; but La- 

 tham, in his Synopfis of Birds, fays, he has had them when they 

 could fcarcely fly, the red was then mixed with brown, but became 

 full red after the firft moult. 



It is common in many parts of Europe, and is found as high north 

 as Lapmark ; in England it is met with in moffc woody places. 



They build in the hollow trunks of trees, fifteen or twenty feet 

 from the ground : with their bills, which are very ftrong, hard, and 

 formed like a wedge, they can bore through the living part of the 

 wood, till they come to that which is rotten ; the hole thus formed is 



as 



