’VTOODPECKEn. 
liiding-placcs ; and their tongue neing 
furnished with a clammy juice, they re- 
tain their prey from the moment they 
have touched it. They occasionally eat 
fruits, are timid and cunning, generally 
live alone, and when hatching, male and 
and female take in turns to perform the 
office. The commonest species in England 
is called the Green Woodpecker, and 
whm once it has found its way up a tree, 
it is said never to decend, but to fly back 
to the spot at which it means to recom- 
mence its toil. 
