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the Swift's mouth in fact, only, of course, much 

 larger ; it is also furnished with a lot of bristles, 

 which enable it, no doubt, to capture the moths and 

 beetles upon which it subsists. 



CASE 68. 



GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER, NUT- 

 HATCH, TREE-CREEPER, WRYNECK. 



Great Spotted Woodpecker. 



Order, PicaricE. Family. Picidcs. 



This species is much less common than the Green 

 Woodpecker. Its favourite haunts are amongst 

 woodland slopes, and districts with fine old timber 

 about them, and in such localities it is fairly distri- 

 buted, though nowhere abundant. It is not 

 infrequent in the southern parts of England and 

 the Midlands ; growing rarer in Wales (except in 

 Brecon) and the north of England, and hardly 

 known in Scotland or Ireland, except as a visitor. 

 The circumstances under which the specimens were 

 obtained were as follows : — My brother-in-law 

 having a shooting-box at a place called Llanbadarn, 

 Radnorshire, I, when not occupied in shooting 

 game, used to amuse myself by looking for some 

 new species to add to my collection. I got informa- 

 tion that these two birds had been seen in a wood 

 about three miles away. Owing to the luxuriant 



