92 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



be expected, the Woodpeckers are not strongly 

 represented in the Islands, and the present species, 

 the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, is the only one 

 as to the occurrence of which I can get any 

 satisfactory evidence. 



Professor Ansted, however, includes the Greater 

 Spotted Woodpecker in his list, and marks it as 

 occurring in Guernsey only; and there is one 

 specimen of the Green Woodpecker, Gecinus viridis, 

 in the Museum, but there is no note whatever as 

 to its locality ; so under these circumstances I 

 have not thought it right to include either species. 

 But as to the occurrence of the Lesser Spotted 

 Woodpecker, though I have not seen it myself, 

 nor have I a Channel Island specimen, I have 

 some more evidence ; for in reply to some questions 

 of mine on the subject, Mr. Couch wrote to me in 

 April, 1877, " Eespecting the Woodpecker, you may 

 fully rely on the Lesser Spotted as having been 

 shot here, four examples having passed through my 

 hands ; and writing from memory I will, as near as 

 possible, tell you when and where they were shot. 

 I took a shop here in 1866. In the month of 

 August, 1867, there was one brought to me alive, 

 shot in the water lanes, just under Smith's Nursery 

 by a young gent at the College ; he wounded it in the 

 wing. I wanted too much to stuff it (2s. 6d.) ; he 

 took the poor bird out, fixed it somewhere ; he and 

 his companions fired at it so often they blew it to 



