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but little as it was when it was set on, it soon filled the whole pan. 

 Thinking this too much for alms, she took a smaller quantity, and 

 again began to bake ; but this also grew as large as the first. 

 Gertrude then took still less dough, but this cake, too, swelled 

 until it was as large as the others. Then said the woman, ' you 

 must go without alms, for all my bakings are too large for you ! ' 

 Then was our Lord wroth, and said unto Gertrude, ' because thou 

 gavest me nothing, thou shalt, for punishment, become a bird. 

 Thou shalt seek thy dry food between the wood and the bark, and 

 drink only when it rains.' The words were no sooner spoken than 

 the woman was transformed into the ' Gertrude Bird,' and flew 

 away through the kitchen chimney. And to this day she is seen 

 with a red hood and a black body, coloured by the chimney soot." 



Frazer's Magazine, 1858. 



Genus— DENDROCOPUS. 



DENDROCOPUS VILLOSUS— Hairy Woodpecker. 



This bird, also, is put in a parenthesis by the Committee of 

 the British Ornithologists Union, and there it must be left. There 

 is a specimen in the Hereford Musuem, labelled " Garway 1845," 

 but unfortunately it has no history connected with it. 



[DENDROCOPUS pubescens — Downy Woodpecker.] 

 In Dorsetshire in December, 1836. 



DENDROCOPUS MAJOR— Great Spotted Woodpecker. 



The busy Woodpecker 

 Made stiller by her sound 

 The inviolable quietness. 



Shelley — Recollection. 



This Woodpecker, though nowhere numerous, is yet not rare 

 in the oak woods and orchards of Herefordshire. It keeps very 

 much out of sight in the higher branches of trees, and is probably 



