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the contrary, no bird appears sooner reconciled to the menagerie. One 

 now in our possession, that was badly wounded with a broken wing-, 

 took to feeding- on corn immediately, and is now, after three years' con- 

 finement, very tame, and in high health.* 



PODICEPS (Latham.) — Grebe, a genus of birds (Colymbus, Lin- 

 naeus.) 



POKE PUDDING.— A name for the Bottle Tit. 

 POKER. — A name for the Pochard. 

 POOR WREN.— A name for the Gorcock. 

 POPE.— A name for the Puffin. 

 POPPINJAY (Picus viridis, Ray.) 



*Picus viridis, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 175. 12.— Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 433. sp. 12 Lath. 



Ind. Orn. 1. p. 234. sp. 27 Eaii, Syn. p. 42. A. 2. — Will. 93. t. 21 Briss. 



4. p. 9. 1.— Flem, Br. Anim. p. 91 Le Pic vert, Buff. Ois. 7. p. 23. t. 1.— 



Ib. PL Enl. 371. and 879.— Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. p. 391— Grunspecht, 



Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 2. p. 1007 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. p. 1 18.— Frisch, 



t. 35.— Green Woodpecker, Br. Zool. 1. No. 84.— Arct. Zool. 2. p. 277. B. — 



Lewins Br. Birds, 2. t. 51. — Will. (Angl.) p. 135. t. 21 Haye's Br. Birds, t. 



18 Lath. Syn. 2. p. 577. 25.— Ib. Supp. p. 110 Mont. Orn. Dlct.—Pult. 



Cat. Dorset, p. 6 Don. Br. Birds, 2. t. 37 Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. p. 116.— 



Shaw's Zool. 9. p. 183 Selbii, pi. 38. %. 1. p. 103.* 



Provincial. — Woodspite. Rain Bird or Rain Fowl. High Hoe. Hew 



Hole. Awl Bird. Yapping-ale. Yaffle or Yaffler. Woodwall.* 



This species weighs about six ounces ; length thirteen inches ; the 

 bill is dusky, two inches long- ; the tongue near six inches ; irides white. 

 The feathers on the crown of the head dusky, tipped with cinereous ; 

 the eyes surrounded with black ; beneath which, in the male, is a crim- 

 son spot bordered with black, which in the female is wholly black ; the 

 neck, back, lesser coverts of the wings, and scapulars, are green ; the 

 rump pale yellow ; quill-feathers dusky, the greater spotted on each 

 web with white, the lesser very faintly spotted on the exterior webs, 

 and deeply bordered with green ; the coverts of the ears and whole 

 under parts are of a very pale yellow-green ; the tail-feathers are stiff, 

 pointed, alternately barred with dusky and green, tipped with black, 

 except the outer feathers ; legs ash-colour ; claws much hooked. 



This species is not uncommon about most of the wooded parts of 

 England; its food is entirely insects. The formation of the whole of 

 this tribe is admirably adapted to their mode of life. The bill, which 

 is strong, and formed like a wedge at the point, enables them to force 

 their way through the sap of a tree, when by instinct it is discovered 

 to be decayed at heart. With this instrument it dislodges the larvce of 

 a numerous tribe of the coleopterous insects, as well as that stinking 

 caterpillar the larva of the goat moth, (Cossks ligniperda^) of which 

 the bird frequently smells. 



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