In Forest and Copse. 



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months in almost every description of well-timbered 

 country. The habits of these birds are very similar, 

 and they all breed in holes, and lay shining white 

 eggs. Rarer and more local still is the curious 



The Greater Spotted Woodpecker. 



Wryneck, a summer visitor only to our islands, and 

 finding no habitation at all in Ireland. Its arrival 

 in most places is usually coincident with that of the 

 Cuckoo hence in not a few localities it is known as 

 the " Cuckoo's Mate". Here again we have a bird 

 that is much overlooked, its chaste and sober colour- 

 ing (yet exquisitely beautiful in detail) and its shy and 



