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lative: The list being very long: between 30, and 40 
have been recorded. 
Mr. Yarrell gave it picture and place, from which it 
has been deposed by Professor Newton. Yarrell seems to 
have believed in some of the occurrences. 
Mc. Gillivray’s two specimens are thus vouched for, 
“two specimens in my collection, male and female, which 
I purchased of Dr. Madder to whom they were sent as 
shot near Nottingham: Dr. Madder afterwards obtained 
a certificate from the person who procured them.” 
It is a bird about which the most ordinary observer 
could make no mistake as to its identity—in the case of 
Mc.Gillivray’s birds every precaution to establish the 
occurrence seems to have been taken; and the birds 
having occurred together precludes the possibility of their 
being ‘ escapeds.’ 
Many admitted birds are scarcely as well established 
in their title to enrolment. 
THE MIDDLE SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
(Picus MeEptvs.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Rejected by Newton. 
Rejected by Seebohm. 
THE HAIRY WOODPECKER. 
(Picus VILLosus.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Noticed by Newton. 
Noticed by Seebohm. 
The B.O.U. List gives xo reason for rejecting the occur- 
rences. 
