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a bove all thole lingular fcarlct wax like appen¬ 
dages to fome of the feathers of the wings, are 
fufficient to diftinguiih it from all other birds. 
Writers who have had better opportunities of ex- 
SPECIES VIII 
mi. orn. 125. 
Rail fyn. av. 40. 
Briffon av. 24. 
H E jack-daw weighs nine ounces : the 
length thirteen inches : the breadth 
twenty-eight. The head is large in 
proportion to its body; which Mr. miloughby 
fays argues him to be ingenious and crafty. 1 he 
irides are white : the forehead is black : the hind 
part of the head alh colored ; the bread: and 
belly of the fame color, but more obfcure : the 
D S. [Clafs II. 
amining this fpecies than we have, fay that the 
male has feven of thefe appendages, the female 
only five f ; that they live in the woods, and 
feed on juniper and other berries J. 
^ Brunniche s crnith. Boreal. 
+ Kramer: Elencb. An. Aujlrice . 
The Jack-daw. 
Corvus monedula Lin. fyft. 106. 
Gracculus, feu monedula. Gefner 
av . 521. 
reft of the plumage is black, (lightly glofled with 
blue : the feet and bill black. It is a docil lo¬ 
quacious bird. 
Jack-daws breed in fteeples, old caftles, and in 
high rocks; laying five or fix eggs: are gre¬ 
garious birds ; and feed on infers, grain, and 
<D 
feeds f. 
4- xhe caryocataftes, Wtl. orn. J 32, a bird of this genus, was fhot 
near Moftyn , Flintjhire, \n Otfobcr , 1753 j fuppofed to have ftraggled 
from Germany, where they are common. 
GENUS V- WOODPECKERS. 
SPECIES I. The Green Woodpecker. Plate E. 
Green woodpecker, or woodfpite ; 
called alfo the rain fowd, high hoe, 
and hewhole. ml. orn. 135. 
Raii fyn. av. 42. 
H E wifdom of providence in the ad¬ 
mirable contrivance of the fitnefs of 
the parts of animals to their refpe&ive 
nature, cannot be better illuftrated than from this 
genus : which we {hall give from the obfervations 
of our illuftrious countryman Mr. Ray *. 
Thefe birds feed entirely on infe&s : and their 
principal a&ion is that of climbing up and down 
the bodies of boughs of trees : for the firft purpofe 
they are provided with a long {lender tongue, 
Brijfon av . 4. 9* 
Ficus viridis. Lin . fyft . 113. 
GiralcL Cambrens . 191. 
Gefner av. 710. 
armed with a {harp honey end barbed on each fide, 
which by the means of a curious apparatus of 
mufcles j they can exert at pleafure, darting it to 
a great length into the clifts of the bark, tranf- 
fixino- and drawing out the infe&s that lurk there. 
They make their nefts in the hollows of trees : 
in order therefore to force their way to thofe ca¬ 
vities, their bills are formed ftrong, very hard, 
and wedge-like at the end ; and, as Dr. Derhatti 
obferves, a neat ridge runs along the top, as if 
an artift had defigned it for ftrength and beauty. 
Their 
* Ray on the creation, p. 143,. 
■f Phil. tram. Martins abridg . III. p. 183' P^ ate 3 - 
