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GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



WIIITWALL. WITWALL. WOODWALL. WOODNACKEK. 



WOODPIE. FRENCH PIE. PIED WOODPECKER. 



GREATER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. GREAT BLACK A2TD 



WHITE WOODPECKER. FRENCH WOODPECKEE. 



JPicus major, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" varius major, HAY. 



PicusA. bird that makes holes in trees, supposed to be the 

 Woodpecker. Major Greater. 



Tins species is found over the whole of the European con- 

 tinent, from Russia to Italy, Sweden to France, Denmark 

 and Norway to Germany, and other countries. In Asia Minor 

 it has been noticed by E. H. Strickland, Esq.; and, Meyer 

 says, is found in America also. 



In this country it is of local distribution, dependent entirely 

 on the nature of the locality, and nowhere to be called common. 

 Wooded districts are, of course, its resort; and it is most 

 frequent in the midland counties, in parks, forests, and woods, 

 and is occasionally to be seen in gardens. It becomes much 

 less numerous farther north. 



In Yorkshire it occurs not very unfrequently near Hud- 

 dersfield, as Peter Inchbald, Esq. informs me; and it lias 

 been known to breed there. Near Sheffield, also, it is not 

 rare; and has been met with near Hebden-Bridge, Earnsley, 

 and Plumpton, all in the West-Biding; Castle Howard, in 

 the North-Hiding; and one at Eoynton, in the East-Riding. 

 In Northumberland it is scarce, and in Cumberland. W. F. 

 Wratislaw Bird, Esq. has written me word, that one of these 

 birds, which, probably, as he remarks, had strayed from Ken- 



