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of considerable depth. For this purpose it selects . 
those trees which are in a decaying state, or the 
softer kinds of wood, such as the aspen, to which it 
is very partial. When thus engaged, the strokes of 
its bill are repeated with such velocity that the head 
is scarcely perceived to move, and the sound, it is 
said, may be heard distinctly at the distance of 
half a mile. It makes no nest. The eges, four 
or five in number, are ofa bluish white hue. 
WOODPECKER, GREATER SPOTTED. 
Picts Magor, Lin. 
The Greater Spotted Woodpecker is extensively 
distributed in England and Scotland, as well as in 
Treland, in which country it is permanently resident. 
It frequents woods and plantations, especially 
those of beech and pine, feeding on the insects and 
larvee which it obtains in the decayed bark and 
wood. The eggs, which are placed on chips of 
wood in a hole formed in a tree, are generally five 
innumber, pure white and glossy. 
