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in autumn. We heard them near Upper Fanczal ; and many 

 were seen at Hatzeg and Banffy Hunyad in August. 



*47. Picus LEUCONOTUS, Bechst. Feher hdtu Harkdly. 



Not uncommon. We shot one in the oak-woods at Gor- 

 geny ; but our finding it there in summer is considered sin- 

 gular. Like all the rest of this family, one sees many more 

 of them in autumn, when tliey can always be found on the 

 Klopotiva, near Hatzeg; and in winter, according to Herr 

 Csato, they often visit the orchards and willow trees on the 

 Strell. 



*48. Picus MAJOR, L. Tarka Harkdly. 



Very common everywhere. We even met with it at Zah, 

 in the Mezoseg, a district scarcely suited to its mode of life. 

 It is extraordinary with what tenacity Woodpeckers of this 

 and other species cling, when wounded, to the bark of trees, or 

 hang suspended from the topmost twigs. They often troubled 

 us, too, by getting entangled in the dense bunches of mis- 

 tletoe which grow at the very tops of the great oak trees in 

 the Mocsar wood at Gorgeny. 



■^49. Picus MEDius, L. Kdsep tarka Harkdly. 

 Common in the woods at Gorgeny and Hatzeg, and gene- 

 rally throughout the country. 



*50. Picus minor, L. Kis tarka Harkdly. 



Generally distributed, but not everywhere common. We 

 saw it in the woods near Gorgeny; and it is common at 

 Farkadin, near Hatzeg. 



^51. PicoiDEs TRiDACTYLus (L.) . HdroM ujU Harkdly. 



Not uncommon among the high pine-woods. Dauford saw 

 them near the Retjezat in autumn. The specimens in the 

 Museum at Klausenburg were shot at Jaroviz^ in the Hesdati 

 mountains. Herr Csato says, in his paper on the natural 

 history of the Retjezat, that this species never leaves the pine- 

 woods. 



*52. CucuLus CANORUS, L. Kukuk. 



Common in woods^ plains^ and mountains, and to be found 



