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GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
WHITWALL. WITWALL. WOODWALL. WOODNACKER. 
WOODPIE. FRENCH PIE. PIED WOODPECKER. 
GREATER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. GREAT BLACK AND 
WHITE WOODPECKER. FRENCH WOODPECKER. 
Picus major, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 
“varius major, Ray. 
Picus—A bird that makes holes in trees, supposed to be the 
Woodpecker. Major—Greater. 
Tuts species is found over the whole of the European con- 
tinent, from Russia to Italy, Sweden to France, Denmark 
and Norway to Germany, and other countries. In Asia Minor 
it has been noticed by EH. H. Strickland, Esq.; and, Meyer 
says, is found in America also. 
In this country it is of local distribution, dependent entirely 
on the nature of the locality, and nowhere to be called common. 
Wooded districts are, of course, its resort; and it is most 
frequent in the midland counties, in parks, forests, and woods, 
and is occasionally to be seen in gardens. It becomes much 
less numerous farther north. 
In Yorkshire it occurs not very unfrequently near Hud- 
dersfield, as Peter Inchbald, Esq. informs me; and it has 
been known to breed there. Near Sheffield, also, it is not 
rare; and has been met with near Hebden-Bridge, Barnsley, 
and Plumpton, all in the West-Riding; Castle Howard, in 
the North-Riding; and one at Boynton, in the Kast-Riding. 
In Northumberland it is scarce, and in Cumberland. W. F. 
Wratislaw Bird, Esq. has written me word, that one of these 
birds, which, probably, as he remarks, had strayed from Ken- 
