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and in poor condition, and it seemed as though the diet 

 suppUed by the Bullfinch had been barely sufficient (or 

 suitable) to rear it. J. H. Owen. 



YOUNG GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKERS. 

 On June 24th, 1911, I found a nest of the Great Spotted 

 Woodpecker {Dendroco'pus major) still containing two fully- 

 fledged young. The nest was in a small tree in the middle of 



YOUNG GEE AT SPOTTED WOODPECKERS. 

 [Photographed by J. H. Owen.) 



a thick wood in Essex, and fifteen to twenty feet from the? 

 ground, in an old boring. I examined the nest with the help 

 of the boy who was with me. It was in a horrible mess, as 

 all the excrement, which is left in the hole, was ver}^ wet and 

 full of large white maggots. The nests of Green Woodpeckers 

 which I have opened this year, as soon as the young had gone, 

 have all been in a similar condition. We took the two young 

 out of the nest and put them upon an old stump, up which 

 they climbed with their feet wide apart and their tails applied 

 to the trunk. Arrived at the top they pecked at one another 

 and uttered their call-note. Occasionally they would ^y 



