The Green Wood-Pecker Is the mod common of the genua 

 in this country, and may be met with in mod of the woody 

 parts of this ifland, where it is readily difcovered by its dif- 

 cordant note, and alfo by the noife it makes when perforating 

 a tree in que ft of food, which confifts entirely of infects, their 

 eggs, and larvae ; when it difcovers a tree that is decayed, it 

 tries with its bill the different fides till by the found it difcovers 

 the part that requires the leaft labour to perforate, it then 

 pecks it with its wedge-fhaped bill until it arrives at the 

 un found part, which feldom fails of affording it a plentiful 

 repafh 



In the ftomach of one (from- which our figure was coloured) 

 we found the chryfalis of the phalaena cofTus (the goat moth) 

 nearly entire ; Mr. Montague remarks it has frequently been 

 obferved to fmell of them ; it alfo feeds on beetles and ants, 

 and may often be feen on the ground, infinuating its 

 tongue into the crevices of ant-hills, and drawing out the 

 Infects ; it will fometimes make an aperture in the fide of a 

 hill with its bill and feet, and then feeds on the infects and 

 eggs at leifure, 



They ufually lay five or fix eggs in the hollow of a decayed 

 tree, at the depth of two feet or more from the entrance ; the 

 eggs vary in colour, being in fome inftances nearly white, and 

 in others greenifh fpoited with black ; the young run about 

 the branches of the tree for a considerable time before they 

 are able to fly. When flying, their motion is undulating and 

 very irregular, proceeding forward by fudden jerks ; they take 

 but very fhort flights. 



