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PICID^. 



The female has the colours less brilliant, and the 

 crown wholly black ; but at a certain age has a small 

 patch of red on the crown. The young male like 

 the female. This species lays five or six pure white 

 eggs. 



GENUS CCXXVIII.— YUNX, Linne. WRYNECK. 



Rostrum basi plumulis ob- 

 tectum, conico-longum, te- 

 retiusculum, acuminatum. 



Lingua longissima, teres, 

 lumbriciformis. 



Nares concavae, denudatae. 



Beah clothed at the base, 

 elongated-conic, rounded, 

 acuminated. 



Tongue very long, rounded, 

 worm-like. 



Nostrils concave, naked. 



Sp. 1. Yu. Torquilla. Steph. v. ix.p. 148. pi. 48. — Britain and 



Europe. 

 Sp, 2. Yu? Cayennensis. 



Picus minutus. Steph. v. ix. p. 211. pi. 30. — Cayenne. 



GENUS CCXXIX.— PICUMNUS, Temminck. 



I CANNOT find that M. Temminck has characterized 

 this genus, neither am I acquainted with the type, 

 which may probably be the last-mentioned bird, the 

 Yunx ? Cayennensis. The genus is introduced here 

 in accordance with the views of Mr. Vigors, who places 

 it next to the foregoing in his arrangement of the 

 Genera of Birds. 



