GREEN WOODPECKER. 
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J NS ESS ORES. 
SC AN SORES. 
PIQIDJE. 
GREEN WOODPECKER. 
RAIN-PIE. 
PlCUS VIRIDIS. 
PLATE LXI. FIG II. 
The Green Woodpecker very soon makes known its 
neighbourhood by its loud and very singular cry, which 
is the more remarkable in rainy weather; the loud 
laughing note which it then utters has often almost 
reconciled me to a wet jacket. 
The Green Woodpecker builds its nest in the trunks 
of trees, frequently at a considerable height above the 
ground. In Norway, where the churches are chiefly of 
wood, we noticed one of these birds, which had chosen 
for its nest the elevated situation of the spire, in the side 
of which it had most irreverently bored its hole. 
This hole is frequently so small that the eggs are 
accessible only after the long and laborious use of the 
hatchet; they are four or five in number, and are laid 
upon the fine particles of the rotten wood which remain 
at the bottom of the hole. 
Mr. Newton has kindly sent me a drawing of the 
coloured eggs of this species mentioned by himself and 
others in the “ Zoologist/' It is smeared over in the 
same manner as the eggs of the grebes, and I have no 
doubt at all arises from a vegetable stain. 
