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England, of course, also shared in the visitation, records 

 already published (British Birds for March) extending south 

 from Northumberland to Kent and Sussex, and overland 

 to Cheshire, Shropshire, Gloucester, and other western 

 counties. 



The storm told with disastrous effect on other sea-birds 

 besides the Little Auks. Hundreds of Razorbills and 

 Guillemots also lay scattered along the beaches, while 

 numbers of Shags and Gulls (several species), some Puffins, 

 and an occasional Diver (Red-, and Black-throated), Black 

 Guillemot (Edenmouth), Oyster-catcher, etc., were in 

 evidence. 



SOME TREES IN WHICH THE GREAT SPOTTED 

 WOODPECKER {DENDROCOPUS MAJOR, 

 LINN.) HAS BORED OR NESTED ' IN 

 SCOTLAND. 



By the Rev. H. N. Bonar, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



DURING the last ten years I have had a good many oppor- 

 tunities of observing the nesting of the Great Spotted Wood- 

 pecker in Scotland, England, and Holland. In every case 

 I have taken particular care to note the species of tree 

 selected for boring into. I append a few notes concerning 

 the trees in which I have either found the birds actually 

 nesting, or have found borings which I had good reason to 

 believe had been occupied in previous years. I count as 

 " nests " those borings which the Woodpeckers have made 

 and from which they have been ejected by Starlings. In 

 seven or eight cases I have found newly finished borings 

 occupied by Starlings. In one case I found four eggs of 

 the Great Spotted Woodpecker lying broken at the foot of 

 the tree, in the newly drilled boring of which was a Starling's 

 nest. At present in Scotland this shameless bird is the 

 great enemy of the Woodpecker. 

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