GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER'S RESUSCITATION 211 



I give the facsimile of one of the forms used by me for re- 

 gistration, as perhaps some people might desire to use 

 them for the sake of uniformity and comfort in filing. 

 This I give only as an example, as I am reminded that 

 there is expense connected with printing such in running 

 type. They are, however, not intended for universal printing, 

 but for private usefulness. I have used them myself for a 

 number of years now, and can truly say I have personally 

 found them useful. I do not know whether others have 

 adopted their use or not. All I can say is what I have said ; 

 and as it is said here, it is now public property generally, to 

 do with it what the public chooses ; or leave it alone if not 

 of sufficient interest to them. 



Though I cannot here mention all of my correspondents 

 to whom I am indebted for these data and all others 

 which are plotted on the map, yet I cannot omit to 

 thank those who have specially interested themselves. 

 Amongst these are the factor at Duns Castle, Mr. J. 

 Ferguson ; and Mr. A. H. Evans ; Mr. W. Evans ; Mr. H. S. 

 Gladstone and Mr. Service for Dumfriesshire and Solway ; 

 Miss Baillie Hamilton, Callander ; Her Grace the Duchess 

 of Bedford, Mr. W. E. Frost, and others for south of Tay, 

 and up the Tay valley. 



If I do not mention all by name, I trust they will believe 

 me when I assure them that they are not omitted for the 

 reasons given — elsewhere referred to — as that is a system 

 with which I cannot feel the slightest sympathy. 



Taking the accompanying sketch map as our reference 

 sheet, it will be seen that the Great Spotted Woodpecker has 

 in its advances covered a broad area of wooded and suitable 

 country between the Solway Firth and the East Coast. 

 Abundance of evidence of summer occupations, O, and of 

 actual nesting records, ©, showing from the river Nith east- 

 ward to Berwickshire, and thence reaching north through 

 Tweed counties into those of Forth upon the south shore of 

 the Forth. 



It will be seen also that these birds appear to have 

 shunned the country to the west of the Nith, but few 

 summer records reaching us from Kirkcudbright, and none at 

 all from Wigtown or northward through Ayr, or to any of 



