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resort. Their food mainly consists of ants and their larvae. Besides G@. viridis, three more species inhabit

Europe ; and others are to be found in Asia and Africa.

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210. GECINUS VIRIDIS
Green WooprEckerR or YAFFLE.

A resident species in England, in many parts of which it is known by the name of * Yaffle.” It is rare in

Scotland, and has not yet been seen in the sister kingdom of Ireland.

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211. GEcINUS VIRIDIS

Green Wooppecker or YAFFLE (young).

Subfamily COLAPTIN-E.
Genus CouaprTes.

A purely American form, comprising about six or seven species, ranging from the United States to Bolivia

212. CoLapTes AURATUS.
Golden-winged Woodpecker.
A native of the eastern parts of North America, a single example of which was killed in Amesbury Park,
Wiltshire, in the autumn of 1836, as recorded by Mr. George S. Marsh, of Chippenham, in the ‘ Zoologist ’
tor 1859, p. 6327, where he says, ‘ My brother saw this bird in the flesh, just after it was shot. It was

preserved by Mr. Edwards, of Amesbury, and has never been out of my possession.”

Subfamily YUNGIN.
Genus Yunx.

Onlvechree on four cnecies auc denac.. ofa: :
y three or four species are known of this very anomalous Old-World form. Their range extends over
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a great portion of the northern regions of Asia, entering Japan, and one species Eastern and Southern Africa.
213. Yunx roreumia Voll THE
WryneEck.
\ true harbinger i . :
é er of spring, arrives before the Sw: ie
2 pring, arrives before the Swallow, serenades us with its peculiar cry of Pee-pee-pae,

and but seldom exposes its fe :
xposes its body to view. Is generally distributed over England and the southern portion of

Scotland. Our Irish ornithologists must regret that it does os ;
5 Sg at it does not visit their country; for a more curious

creature does not exis Manv of ; :
s not exist. Many of its actions, and the character of its mark; ee
racter of its markings, have procured for it the

trivial name of « Suakebird.”