398 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS 



The Grey Woodpecker (Picus canus, V\. 16, 

 figs. 6, 7) is not known to have occurred in the 

 British Islands, and is here figured merely for the 

 sake of comparison. 



HAIRY WOODPECKER. Dendrocojms viUosus (Lin- 

 na3us). Length, 8'5 in. : bill, r25 in. ; wing, 4-8 in. ; 

 tarsus, 0-8 in. 



Hah. North America, to the eastern base of the Rocky 

 Mountains. A good figm-e in Chapman's " Handbook of 

 Birds of Eastern North America," 1895, p. 229. 



A pair, Halifax, Yorkshire, in collection of Duchess of 

 Portland : Latham, " Gen. Syn.," vol. ii. p. oTS ; and "Ind. 

 Orn.," vol. i. p. 232. At this lapse of time it is impos- 

 sible to say whether the species was correctly deter- 

 mined. If so, it may have been received from Halifax, 

 Nova Scotia. 



One near Whitby, Yorkshire, 1849, received from a dealer : 

 Higgins, ZooL, 1849, p. 2496 ; Bird, p. 2527 ; Newman, 

 ZooL, 1851, p. 2985 ; Bird, torn, cit, p. 3034. In the 

 British Museum, but history doubtful. 



One, supposed, near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire : Aplin, 

 Zool, 1882, p. 69 : " Birds of Oxfordshire," 1889, p. 212. 

 Of doubtful authenticity. 



DOWNY WOODPECKER. Bendrocopus piibescens 

 (Linnaius). Length, 6 in.: bill, O'G in.; wing, 3-75 

 in. ; tarsus, 0'6. 



Hah. Northern and Eastern United States, southward 

 to Florida. 



•One, Bloxworth, near Blandford, Dorsetshire, Dec. 1830 : 

 Rev. O. P. Cambridge, Zool, 1859, p. 6444. 



Ohs. Possibly a skin received from the bird- 

 stufter to whom a specimen of D. minor had been 



