CUCKOOS. 123 



aOLDEN-WING-ED WOODPECKEB. PlCUS auratus, 

 Linnaeus. 



Hob. Eastern North America. 



One, Amesbury Park, Wilts, autumn 1836 : Marsh, Zoolo- 

 gist, 1859, p. 6327. 



Obs. Mr. Marsh says, I. c. : My brother, now 

 Member for Salisbury, saw this bird in the flesh be- 

 fore it was preserved; it was brought to him just 

 after it was shot. It was preserved by Mr. Edwards, 

 of Amesbury, and has never been out of my posses- 



sion." 



Fam. CUCULID.E. 



GBEAT SPOTTED CUCKOO. Cuculus glandarius, Lin- 

 naeus. 



Hob. Africa and South-western Europe. 



One, Omagh Island, co. Galway, March 1842 : Ball, Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. 1843; Thompson, Nat. Hist. Ireland (Birds), 

 vol. i. p. 364; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 205*. 



One near Chiltrim Farmhouse, North Tyne, 5th Aug. 1870 : 

 Charlton, The Field, 3rd Sept. 1870f. 



* Yarrell refers to another specimen as having been obtained at 

 Llawrenny, Pembrokeshire, and recorded in the * Zoologist/ 1851, 

 p. 3046 ; but on turning to the volume and page indicated, it ap- 

 pears that the communication has reference to an example of the 

 Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



f This specimen was identified by Mr. W. Proctor, of Durham, 

 who preserved it for Mr. Charlton. 



