120 RARE VISITANTS. 
Fam: PIC! Dz. 
GREAT BLACK WOODPECKER. Picus martius, Lin- 
nus. 
Hab. Northern Europe. 
One or more, Devonshire, 1785-1790: Latham, Gen. Syn. 
Suppl. p. 104. 
One shot at Blandford, Dorset, 1799: Pulteney, Cat. Birds 
Dorset, p. 6. 
One shot at wyihifcleah Dorset, 1799: Pulteney, /. c. 
One said to have been shot in Lancashire by Lord Stanley : 
Montagu, Orn. Dict. Suppl. 18138; but the statement 
subsequently shown to be incorrect: Collingwood, Hist. 
Faun. Lancashire and Cheshire, p. 16; Zoologist, 1865, 
pp- 9626, 9627. 
One shot in Battersea Fields, Middlesex : Montagu, op. cit. 
One formerly in collection of Donovan, now in the Derby 
Museum, Liverpool; said to have been killed in this 
country: Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. 11. p. 138. 
One or more considered by Yarrell to have occurred in Scot- 
land, from a statement by Sir Robert Sibbald in his ‘ His- 
toria Animalium in Scotia,’ p.15; but this statement shown 
to have been misconstrued: E. C. Buxton, Zoologist, 1865, 
p. 9730. 
One shot near Crediton, in collection of late Mr. Newton, of 
Okehampton, Devon: Rowe, Nat. Hist. Dartmoor. 
Two killed in Yorkshire: Yarrell, op. cit. 
One in Lincolnshire: Yarrell, op. cit. 
One shot near London about 1830: Blyth, Field ‘Naturalist, 
p. 49. 
Two reported to have been killed in Norfolk (Adam White, 
Trans. Linn. Soc. 17th Nov. 1835) ; but there is no doubt 
that the species obtained was Picus major: Stevenson, 
Birds of Norfolk, vol. i. p. 291; Zoologist, 1864, p. 9248. 
