. The feathered tribes of the British Islands . *s&53. ORDER VI. ZYGODACTYLES. YOKE-TOED. The foreign, especially the tropical, birds of that order areexceedingly numerous, and comprise the most curious andshowy of the feathered tribes—the toucans, the parrots, theparroquets, the maccaws, and many others, which swarm inthe forests, and hang on the trees like gorgeous flowers incolour. The British ones are but few—the wood-peckers, thewryneck, and the cuckoo : the last has a peculiarity in thestructure of its feet, as well as in its mode of life. Threespecies of wood-peckers are resident in Bri
. The feathered tribes of the British Islands . *s&53. ORDER VI. ZYGODACTYLES. YOKE-TOED. The foreign, especially the tropical, birds of that order areexceedingly numerous, and comprise the most curious andshowy of the feathered tribes—the toucans, the parrots, theparroquets, the maccaws, and many others, which swarm inthe forests, and hang on the trees like gorgeous flowers incolour. The British ones are but few—the wood-peckers, thewryneck, and the cuckoo : the last has a peculiarity in thestructure of its feet, as well as in its mode of life. Threespecies of wood-peckers are resident in Britain, and someothers come occasionally as stragglers. There is but oneBritish wry-neck and one cuckoo, which are both regularsummer visitants, but not equally distributed over the wood-peckers are, the green, the greater spotted, and thelesser spotted. THE GREEN WOOD-PECKER. (PlCUS Vtridis.) The lowest figure on the plate opposite, which is one-sixthof the lineal dimensions, will give an idea of the form andcolours of the bird, and al
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