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BLACK WOODPECKER. 
GREAT BLACK WOODPECKER. 
Picus martius, PENNANT. Monracu. 
Picus—A bird that makes holes in trees, supposed to be the 
Woodpecker. MMJartius—martial—warlike ; also, 
belonging to the month of March, 
THE Black Woodpecker is found in Europe in the mountain 
forests of Switzerland, as also in Russia, Siberia, Norway, 
Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Italy, and France. It has been 
met with in Persia; and also, by my friend Hugh Edwin 
Strickland, Esq., in Asia Minor. It is a native likewise of 
some parts of North and South America. 
The following specimens of this bird have been met with 
in this country:—Two were shot in Yorkshire, and unfortu- 
nately not preserved; two were seen by Thomas Meynell, Jun., 
Esq., in the grounds of his father’s seat, the Friarage, at 
Yarm; and one was shot the first week in March, 1846, near 
Ripley, the seat of Sir William A. Ingilby, Bart.; one shot 
by Lord Stanley in Lancashire; one on the trunk of a tree, 
in Battersea fields, near London, in 1805; one in the col- 
lection of Mr. Donovan; one in Lincolnshire; two in a wood 
near Scole, in Norfolk; a pair seen several times in a wood 
near Christchurch, in Hampshire; one shot in a nursery 
garden near Blandford, in Dorsetshire; and another at Whit- 
church, in the same county; both recorded by Dr. Pulteney. 
Others, according to Dr. Latham, in Devonshire and some 
of the southern counties; and one in Scotland, as recorded 
by Sir Robert Sibbald. 
In addition to all these, J. Me’ Intosh, Esq., of Charminster, 
Dorsetshire, records in “The Naturalist,’ No. 1, page 20, that 
