THE GREEN WOODPECKER 
GECINUS VIRIDIS 
LocaL names in surrounding counties: ‘‘ Whetile,”’ 
S vames,; Rain, Bird,“ Heigh-ho.7, (Essex). 
Status 1N British Avirauna: A locally dispersed 
resident in England, chiefly south of Yorkshire ; almost 
unknown in Scotland and Ireland. 
RapiaL DistrRiBUTION WITHIN FIFTEEN MILES OF ST. 
Paut’s: Haunts of the Green Woodpecker may still 
possibly be found at Highgate and Hampstead well within 
the five-mile radius, but elsewhere in a similar limit the 
bird can only be regarded as an occasional wanderer, if 
it occurs at all. I have no records of this Woodpecker 
from any of the large urban parks. Coming to the more 
rural suburbs, the bird is found in the Dulwich, Wim- 
bledon, and Richmond districts; at Bushey, Hounslow, 
Twyford, Harrow, Wembley, Pinner, Ruislip, Stanmore, 
Brockley Hill, Mill Hull, Edgware, Barnet, Enfield, 
Waltham, Epping, Hornchurch, Dagenham, Dartford, the 
Crays, Croydon, Banstead, Epsom, and Bushey. Again, it 
may be remarked that these localities only indicate the 
general distribution of the Green Woodpecker ; there are 
many intervening ones where the bird may be met with. It 
is, however, a somewhat local and thinly dispersed species. 
Slightly beyond our radius the bird is exceptionally nume- 
rous in Windsor Park, at Cookham, Farnham (where I 
have taken many nests), and in the vicinity of Ditton. 
There still remain, it will be seen, many ideal haunts 
for the Green Woodpecker in Greater London. ‘The 
grand old parks and grounds, containing so much mag- 
nificent timber, admirably meet this bird’s requirements, 
and the only wonder is that it occurs in such comparatively 
small numbers. Its natural shyness and love of seclu- 
sion may be the predominating cause. It is for the most 
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