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the contrary, no bird appears sooner reconciled to the menag-erie. 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 (^Colymhus^ 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.) 
*Ficus viridis, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 175. 12. — Gmel. Syst. i. p. 433. sp. 12 Lath. 
Ind. Orn. 1. p. 234. sp. 27 Raii, Syn. p. 42, A. 2. — WUl. 93. t. 21 Briss. 
4. p. 9. 1. — Flem, Br. Anim. p. 91. — Le Pic vert, Buff. Ois. 7. p. 23. t. 1. — 
Ib. PI. Enl. 371. and 879. — Temm. Man. d’Orn. 1 . p. 391. — Grunspecht, 
Bechst. Naturg. Dent. 2. p. 1007 Meyer, Tasscbenb. Dent. 2. p. 118. — Frisch, 
t, 35. — Green Woodpecker, Br. Zool. 1. No. 84. — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 277. B. — 
Lewin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 5i. — Will. (Angl.) p. 135. t. 21. — Hays's Br. Birds, t. 
18 Lath. Syn. 2. p. 577. 25. — Ih. Supp. p. 110 Mont. Orn. Diet. — Pult. 
Cat. Dorset, p. 6. — Don. Br, Birds, 2. t. 37. — Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. p. 116. — 
Shaw's Zool. 9. p. 183. — Selby, pi. 38, fig. 1. p. 103.* 
Provincial , — -Woodspite. Rain Bird or Rain Fowl. High Hoe. Hew 
Hole. Awl Bird. Yappingale. 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 larvve of 
a numerous tribe of the coleopterous insects, as well as that stinking 
caterpillar the larva of the goat moth, {Cossus ligniperda,') of which 
the bird frequently smells. 
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