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THE GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER 



PIED WOODPECKER, WITWALL, WOOD PIE, FRENCH PIE. 



Dendrocopus major. 



MY friend Dr. Charles Stuart of Chirnside has been so 

 good as to let me know that this species was found by 

 Mr. John Ferguson, Duns, nesting in a hole in an ash tree 

 in the woods of Duns Castle, in the summer of 1894. 1 



Mr. William Smith, late gamekeeper at Duns Castle, 

 has informed me that on the 12th of July 1887 he shot 

 a young Great Spotted Woodpecker in Duns Castle woods, 

 which, by its appearance, had only recently left the nest ; 

 and that a few days afterwards he noticed three others 

 sitting on the top of a tall larch tree in the same plant- 

 ations near St. Mary's Cottage. 



i Mr. William Evans, F.R.S.E., records that he found the Great Spotted 

 Woodpecker rearing its young in the same tree in Duns Castle Woods on the 29th 

 of May 1895. Annals of Scottish Natural History, July 1895. 



