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PICUS VIRIDIS. 
GREEN WOODPECKER. 
Green; crown crimson. 
Picus Viridis; Lin. Gme. 
Pic Verd; Buffon. 
Green Woodpecker; Pen. Lath. Bew. 
Mont. Don. 
PROVINCIAL. 
WOOD-SPITE, RAIN BIRD OR RAIN 
FOWL, HIGH-HOE, HEW-HOLE, AWL- 
BIRD, YAPPINGALE, YAFFLE OR 
YAFFLER, WOODWALL, POPPINJAY, 
PICK-A-TREE. 
The Green Woodpecker measures thir- 
teen inches in length, and twenty and a 
half in the expansion of its wings, and 
weighs about six ounces. The female is 
somewhat smaller than the male, and has 
not the red spots on the cheeks, as in the 
other sex. She usually lays five or six 
eggs of a beautiful Iransparent white. 
The young birds have the same markings 
