BLACK WOODPECKER. 



GREAT BLACK WOODPECKER. 



Picus martins, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Picus A bird that makes holes in trees, supposed to be the 



Woodpecker. Martins martini warlike ; aiso, 



belonging to the mouth of March. 



THE Black Woodpecker is found in Europe in the mountain 

 forests of Switzerland, as also in .Russia, Siberia, Norway, 

 Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Italy, and France. It has been 

 met with in Persia; and also, by my friend Hugh Edwin 

 Strickland, Esq., in Asia Minor. It is a native likewise of 

 some parts of North and South America. 



The following specimens of this bird have been met with 

 in this country: Two were shot in Yorkshire, and unfortu- 

 nately not preserved; two were seen by Thomas Meynell, Jun., 

 Esq., in the grounds of his father's seat, the Friarage, at 

 Yarm; and one was shot the first week in March, 1846, near 

 Ripley, the seat of Sir William A. Ingilby, Bart.; one shot 

 by Lord Stanley in Lancashire; one on the trunk of a tree, 

 in Battersea fields, near London, in 1805; one in the col- 

 lection of Mr. Donovan; one in Lincolnshire; two in a wood 

 near Scole, in Norfolk; a pair seen several times in a wood 

 near Christchurch, in Hampshire; one shot in a nursery 

 garden near Blandford, in Dorsetshire; and another at Whit- 

 church, in the same county; both recorded by Dr. Pulteney. 

 Others, according to Dr. Latham, in Devonshire and some 

 of the southern counties; and one in Scotland, as recorded 

 by Sir Robert Sibbald. 



In addition to all these, J. Mc'Intosh, Esq., of Charminster, 

 Dorsetshire, records in 'The Naturalist,' No. 1, page 20, that 



