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PICKMIRE. — A name for the Laug-hing- Gull. 
PICKTARNY. — A name for the Tern. 
PICUS (Linn^us.) — * Woodpecker, a g-eniis thus characterised. Bill 
as long- as, or longer than the head, straight, conical, compressed, pointed 
angular, and wedge-shaped at the point; tongue long and extensile, 
worm-shaped ; nostrils at the base oval and open, concealed by re- 
flected bristly feathers ; wings with the first quill very short, the 
second of mean length, the third and fourth the longest ; tail com- 
posed of twelve, sometimes ten, elastic, stiff, and sharp-pointed feathers ; 
feet robust, formed for climbing; two toes before, and two behind ; the 
two fore ones joined at their base, and the back ones divided ; armed 
with very strong- and hooked claws.* 
PIE. — A name for the Oyster Catcher. 
PIED FLYCATCHER (^Muscicapa luctuosa, Temminck.) 
ADULT MALE IN SU3IMER. 
*Muscicapaluctuosa, Temm. Man d’Orn. 1. p. 155. — Gobe Mouche becfique, Temm. 
Ib . — Muscicapa atricapilla. Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 935. sp. 9. — Lath. Ind. Orn. l.p. 
467. sp. 2 Flem. Br. Anim. p. 63. — Rubetra Anglicana, Briss, Orn. 3. p.436. 
sp. 27. — Schwartzriickiger Flugenfanger, Bechst. Nat. Duet. p. 431. — Meifev, 
Tasschenb. Deut. p. ‘232.— -Frisch, t. 24. f. 2.. — Pied Flycatcher, Br. Zool. 1. 351. 
t. 135. — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 391 . — Lewhis Br. Birds, 3. t. 38. — Lath. Syn. 3. p. 
324. 2. — Mont. Orn. Diet. — Ib. Supp. — Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. p. t. 195. 
MALE, FEMALE, AND YOUNG IN WINTER. 
Motacilla ficedula, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 936. sp. 10. — Sylvia flcedula. Lath. Ixid. Orn. 
2. p. 517. sp. 28 Muscicapa muscipeta, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 435 
Le Bee Figue, Buff. Ois. 5. p. 187. — Ib. PI. Enl. 668. — Schwartzgraiier Flu- 
genfanger, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 213. — Epicurean Warbler, Arct. 
Zool. 2. p. 419.— Lath. Syn. 4. p. 432 Selby, pi. 43*. figs. 2, 3. p. 148.* 
This species is about the size of a linnet. The bill is black ; irides 
hazel ; forehead white ; crown of the head, cheeks, taking in the eyes, 
and whole upper parts, black ; the lesser wing coverts and the greater 
coverts of the primores are dusky ; the six first quill-feathers wholly 
dusky, the rest white at the base, increasing till the three last feathers 
are wholly white, except a spot of black near the point of the exterior 
web ; the under parts of the bird, from chin to tail, are white ; the tail 
is dusky black ; the two exterior feathers white on their outer webs, and 
near the shaft on the inner webs, except at the point ; the legs are black. 
The female has no white on the forehead; the whole upper parts are 
dusky brown ; the under parts dirty white ; in the wings the white is 
less conspicuous than in the male. 
This bird is subject to some variety : some are said to be mixed with 
grey on the upper parts, or spotted with white on the rump or upper 
tail coverts ; others have white on the three exterior feathers of the 
tail ; some have only the outer feather marked with white. 
