The birds of Calcutta / by Frank Finn.

  • Frank Finn
Date:
1917
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The birds of Calcutta / by Frank Finn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gold-backed Woodpecker. (Brachypternus aurantius.) XII.—THE WOODPECKER. “ The golden woodpeclcer laughs loud at nothing.” —Hurdis. It would appear that a propensity for irrespon- sible and irrelevant hilarity is widely spread in the Woodpecker family ; for the species alluded to by the worthy author of the “ Village Curate ” is the English Green Woodpecker (Gecinus viridis)—a bird which can hardly even by a stretch of the poetical imagination be called golden, by the way. Our own common Calcutta Woodpecker (jBrachypternus
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