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The Hijlory of ANIMALS, 
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Pious corpore flavefcente. 
The yellow Pious. 
This is an elegant bird, and, though extreamly different from all the other fpecies of 
this genus in colour, is fo perfe&ly like them in fhape, in the ftrudture of parts and 
manner of living, that even the peafants of the countries where it is native, diftin- 
guifh it as fuch. 
The head is fmall, depreffed at the top, but rounded at the fides: the beak is about 
half an inch long, and is of a triangular figure, very thick at the bafe, and, though 
fharp, yet not fmall at the point ; it has three longitudinal furrows on it, and is of a 
pale bluifti colour: the membrane which covers it’s bafe is of a fomewhat greyer hue, 
otberwife nearly like it; and the noftrils, which hand pretty forward in this, are pa¬ 
tulous and round : the eyes are large; their iris is of a dullcy colour, and the pupii 
large and black, but with a changeable (hade of bluifh and greenifh thrown over it. 
The top of the head is of a fine gold yellow$ the breaft and the long feathers of 
the wings are alfo of the fame elegant colour : the whole bird is indeed yellow, but the 
belly is pale and whitifh, as is alfo the rump ; and the back and the covering feathers of 
the wings are of a fomewhat dufkier yellow, but ffill a very agreeable colour. 
The legs are fhort; they are covered down to the joint with fhort feathers, of a 
pale wbitifh-yellow, approaching to what we exprefs by the terms ftraw or lemon co¬ 
lour : the toes are long j there are two placed before, and two behind, and their claws 
are black, but not very long or very fharp. 
This is a native of the South of France, and of fome parts of Italy, but it is more 
rare than any of the other European fpecies. It feeds, like the others, on infedts that 
live upon, and under, the barks of trees, and has, like the reft, a long tongue, very 
lharp at the point, and capable of being darted out at pleafure. None of the orni- 
thologifts have defcribed it. Barrelier mentions a bird under the name of Picus Citri- 
nus, but the defcription does not perfe&ly agree with the preferved fpecimen I hav© 
received of this. 
The other fpecies of the Picus are, r. The brown Picus, fpotted with yellow. 2 a 
The black Picus, with the wings and tail yellow. 3. The cirrated, black Picus, with 
the tail yellow. 4. The brown Picus, with a gold yellow creft. 5. The fmailcoal- 
black Picus, with the fcarlet creft. 6. The larger-crefted, American Picus. 7. The 
fmaller-crefted, American Picus. 8. The elegantly-coloured, variegated, American 
Picus. 9. The larger, fpotted, American Picus. 10. The leffer, fpotted and variegated, 
American Picus. 
J Y N X. 
r H E beak of the Jynx is fmooth, and the noftrils are very confpicuous, and de¬ 
ll preffed and hollowed : the tongue is very long, of a rounded Torm, and refem- 
bles a worm : the toes are four, and they are placed two before and two behind. 
Of this genus there is only one known fpecies. Linnaeus, in fome of his works, 
has joined this and the cuculus 5 but ’tis better to preferve them diftindt, as he has done 
in his Syftema Naturae, 
Jynx. XljC 
This is a bird of a very fingular appearance $ it is about equal to a lark in fize: the 
head is fmall, and fomewhat depreffed on the crown: the beak is fmooth, and not fo 
robuft as in the wood-pecker-kind, though fomewhat approaching to them in fhape; 
it 
