" birds. PIC^. 22 . Ptcu... 
22. PICUS. angular, flraight, wetlg^^ 
at the tip : nojlrils covered with 
cumbent fetaceous feathers: tong^^'' 
round, worm-lhaped, very long, bonV' 
miffile, daggered, befet at the poi'’’ 
with briftles bent bacJc : tail-featU^^ 
10 , hard, rigid, pointed : feet 
ers. Wood-peckcl' 
The bWs of this genus cti'mb up and clown tiees in feard' 
infetls, which they transfix ancl diaw out frofn the 'J 
the bark by means of the tongue, wliich is bony at 
paibed, ancl fumiflied with a ci rious airparatus of 
for the purppfe of tlirowing it forwarcls wiilr great 
lliey build in hollows of decaying and dead trees, 
they perforate witJi the hard wedge-like bill. 
^Martiuf, Black ; cap vermilion. Greateft blacl 
Inhabk^ E^xrope, Siberia and Chili ; though felclom vilits K' 
.. land; 'is found chiefly among poplar trees ; builds a 
and deep neff, and lays 2.-3 white eggs ; feeds prjncif^ ' 
on bees and ants; — 18 inches long. 
Femdlt^ the hind-liead only red. 
tip^narius. Gap vermilion; body barred with M'hitc and blue. 
Inhabits Chili; lefs than a blackbird. 
Frikdpa- Black ; creft fcarlet ; line, each fide the neck and 
dary quill-featherS white. fVljile-bill^^^ [\ 
Inhabits An;ericcr, from New Jerfty to Brajil; 16 inches lo‘’»' 
makes fpiral holes in trees. j 
iBill ivop% 3 inches long ; irids yellpw ; crtfl conic ; 
pa.rt of the back *(*:hitc. 
Female, cap not toloured. 
PikdtUS, 
B aOk ; creft red ; temples and tvings fpotted with 
, PileaUfl 
of North America; 18 inches long. . .e 
Bill 2 niches long, upper mandible dulky, lower whi»‘ 
golden; furrounded with a brownUb ,, 
