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to one that gave me a fair shot, and I secured 

 him. 



The circumstances attending the second were 

 somewhat different, in this case the bird was coming 

 in to roost in an abandoned nesting - hole in the 

 trunk of a tree. The first evening I attempted to 

 negotiate him, unfortunately, I was on the wrong 

 side of the trunk, so he got in without my being 

 able to see him. My second visit also failed owing 

 to the artfulness of the bird, who managed to screw 

 round the trunk very gradually, and so into the hole. 

 The fact was the bird seemed to know I was there, 

 this, handicapped as I was with a light which had 

 almost departed, made the matter much more 

 difficult. 



My third attempt was successful, as allowing a 

 good time to elapse before trying again and taking 

 up an entirely different position, and one in which 

 my concealment was altogether satisfactory, I 

 managed to outwit my friend. 



Howard Saunders says : " The Green Wood- 

 pecker breeds in the forests of Norway up to about 

 63 deg. N. Lat., but in Sweden and in the islands 

 of the Baltic it does not range so far north. In 

 Denmark it is scarce, but southward it is generally 

 distributed throughout most of Europe down to 

 Turkey ; as well as in Asia Minor and North 

 Persia." 



FINIS. 



