6 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



July 29th last at Kirby Cane, near Bungay. The whole of the 

 upper parts of its plumage were of a pale ash-grey, instead of 

 the ordinary hue, the feathers of the wings and tail edged with 

 white, the usual white upper tail-coverts, and the under parts of 

 the plumage as in ordinary specimens ; ejes pale pink. It was 

 in immature plumage, and a female by dissection. 



Green Woodpecker. — On February 3rd, 1881, an adult male 

 Picas viridis was killed at Cossey, near Norwich. That this 

 bird had exceeded the ordinary limit of Woodpecker life is, I 

 think, clearly shown by the extraordinary length and form of 

 growth its bill had attained. This measured as much as 2| in. 

 along the ridge of upper mandible, and also presented a curved 

 form (with the ridge somewhat more raised in the centre) as 

 much as the bill of Certhia famiUaris. The yellow rump was 

 very brilliant in this specimen, and assumed a rich and deep 

 orange tint in the centre. The posterior red feathers of the 

 crown, extending down the nape, were of a peculiar fiery 

 red. In measuring the bills of several ordinary examples 

 of the Green Woodpecker, I find the average length to be If in. 

 The specimen in question had been resident in the neighbourhood 

 for some years, visiting almost daily an old tree, from the 

 branches of which it met with its untimely cud at the hands of a 

 stranger on a visit to the neighbourhood. I herewith enclose 

 rough outlines of this peculiar growth of bill with that of an 

 ordinary example for comparison. 



Great Spotted Woodpecker — An adult male of this species 

 was shot on January 19th, 1881, at Hickling, within two or 

 three miles of the sea, rather an unusual occurrence in that 

 locality. I have known but one other instance of its appearance 

 there during a number of years. In the stomach I found the 

 empty skins of three full-grown larvae of the wood leopard moth 

 {Zeuzera ascidi), the skins uninjured externally, but their contents 

 squeezed out. 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.— During the past three seasons 

 the occurrence in some numbers of this species in Norfolk and 

 Suffolk shows that it is now not an uncommon bird in the Eastern 

 Counties, although formerly considered so. On February 25th, 

 1881, an adult female was shot in Ketteringham Park ; a pair 

 were seen, but the male escaped. The feathers of the crown of 

 the head in this specimen were white, being intermixed with a 



