/;/ Forest and Copse. 



Do 



months in almost every description of well-timbered 

 country. The habits of these birds are very similar, 

 and they all breed in holes, and lay shining white 

 eeo^s. Rarer and more local still is the curious 



The Greater Spotted Woodpecker. 



Wryneck, a summer visitor only to our islands, and 

 finding no habitation at all in Ireland. Its arrival 

 in most places is usually coincident with that of the 

 Cuckoo — hence in not a few localities it is known as 

 the "Cuckoo's Mate". Here again we have a bird 

 that is much overlooked, its chaste and sober colour- 

 ing (yet exquisitely beautiful in detail) and its shy and 



