. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . zebetween the present and the last, but with the upper part ofthe head in the male black, with a transverse red occipitalband, and a white streak over the eye, the red band wantingin the female, has been stated to have been shot near Halifaxin Yorkshire. It is supposed, however, that the specimenshad come from Halifax in North America. Its habi
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . zebetween the present and the last, but with the upper part ofthe head in the male black, with a transverse red occipitalband, and a white streak over the eye, the red band wantingin the female, has been stated to have been shot near Halifaxin Yorkshire. It is supposed, however, that the specimenshad come from Halifax in North America. Its habits, accord-ing to Mr Audubon, are similar to those of our own is found at all seasons in the woods, orchards, and fences ;feeds on larvae, insects, seeds of maize, grapes, and other fruits;breeds in holes which it bores in trees, laying from four toseven eggs ; and emits a sharp loud note, as well as a rollingnoise similar to that produced by the other small species. According to Donovan, Picus tridactylus of Linnaeus hasbeen shot in the north of Scotland, but I am not aware of itshaving been met with in any part of Britain. 01 PICUS VIRIDIS. THE GREEN WOODPECKER. WOODWALL. WOODSPITE. YAFFLER. YAPPINGALE. POPINJAY. Fig. 206. Picus viridis. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 175. Picus viridis. Lath. Ind. Om. I. 234. Green Woodpecker. Mont. Om. Diet. Pic vert. Picus viridis. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 391. Green Woodpecker. Picus viridis. Selb. Illustr. I. 372, Picus viridis. Green Woodpecker. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 148. Male icith the upper parts yellowish-green, the rump greenish-yellow ; the upper part of the head and hind-neck crimson, theloral and orbital spaces, and a mystachial hand, black, the lattertcith a crimson patch ; the lower parts pale greenish-yellow,tinged loith grey, faintly barred behind with dusky. Femalesimilar, but without red on the cheek. Young greyish-greenabove, the upper part of the head grey, spotted with crimson, thelower parts greenish-whit
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