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beetles, slugs, snails, and grain ; December, slugs, beetles, snails, 
grain, haws, and hips (Florent Prevost). 
Nurcracker.—Coleoptera, Geotrupes stercorarius (Stevenson). 
Insects, seeds of pines, pinaster, and stone pine; beechmast and 
nuts, eggs, and young birds (Yarrell). 
Great SporreD Woopprecker.—Various insects, ants and 
their eggs, spiders, and seeds (Yarrell). Blue and green flies 
(F. Norgate). Cossus ligniperda (T. K. Gunn). 
Green WoopPEckER.—January, ants; February, worms and 
grubs of ants; March, slugs, beetles, and grubs of ants; April, 
ants and worms; May, red ants and grubs of wasps; June, bees 
and ants; July, red ants; August, red ants and worms; September, 
ants and worms; October, grubs of ants; November, grubs of 
ants and bees; December, ants (Florent Prevost). According to 
Naumann, the Green Woodpecker feeds at all seasons, chiefly on 
ants and their pups, Formica rubra, F'. fusca, F. nigra, but 
seldom on F’. herculeana. It also finds in the ant-hills the larve 
and pupe of Cetonia aurata, which, with many other ground- 
beetles, it eats with avidity. It sometimes attacks wasps’ nests 
for the sake of the larve (Dresser). 
Lesser Sporrep WoopreckER.—Small insects (Yarrell). 
Wryneck.—Insects and their larve, large quantities of ants, 
and their eggs (Yarrell). 
CREEPER.— Small insects of all sorts (Yarrell). 
Hooror. — January, worms, grubs, and snails; February, 
worms, grubs, and snails; March, worms, grubs, and snails ; 
April, worms, grubs, and snails; May, flies, dragon-flies, and 
grubs of May-fly ; June, water- and land-snails, flies, &c.; July, 
water- and land-snails, flies, and wood-lice; August, water and 
land-snails, flies, and wood-lice; September, water and land- 
snails, flies, and wood-lice; October, snails, flies, and spiders ; 
November, snails, flies, and spiders; December, snails, flies, 
spiders, and worms (Florent Prevost). 
NuruatcH.—Larve, insects, nuts, berries, hard seeds, and 
beechmast (Yarrell). 
Cucxoo.—According to Count Casimir Wodzicki, the Cuckoo is 
most useful in destroying Bombyx Pini, eating its eggs and larve. 
In 1847 a pine-forest in Darsin, Pomerania, was threatened with 
destruction by these larve, when it was suddenly saved by a large 
number of Cuckoos which were on passage, but remained two 
