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Matthews got a female bird of this species at Gumley in Nov., 
1864; and Mr. Davenport informs me that one was killed at 
Loddington in 1881, and that he saw a pair in May, 1881, in 
Loddington Redditch, and one in November, 1883, in Nosely 
Park. Mr. Ingram writes, ‘Occurs in the Belvoir Woods, and 
breeds occasionally ; seen in orchards; a shy bird.” Widdowson 
wrote, “Occurs most years about neighbourhood of Melton.” 
I bought a female Great Spotted Woodpecker, said to have been 
procured from Ansty in the autumn of 1883; and have seen a 
fine male, shot by the late Mr. Wm. Sansome in the vicinity of 
Narborough some fifty or sixty years ago. Mr. T.B. Ellis writes, 
“ Frequents the larger woods; one or two pairs frequent Bardon 
Wood”; and, as a proof of this, a fine male specimen was shot 
by the keeper at Bardon Hill on May 15th, 1885, and presented 
to the Museum by Mr. B. N. Everard. 
Dendrocopus minor (Linn.). Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.— 
An uncommon resident; breeding occasionally. It is included 
amongst the birds of Charnwood Forest as having occurred near 
Groby. Harley says, “Near to Leicester it affects the elms 
standing on the grounds at Dannett’s Hall and Westcotes; and 
near to the town of Loughborough is known to haunt the trees at 
Burleigh Fields, and also at Market Bosworth.” Mr. Macaulay 
writes, “ Still rarer than the last-named. In the summer of 1878 
a pair built in an orchard at Gumley, and hatched off on May 
26th ; but (unfortunately) the young were destroyed, and the old 
bird captured.” Mr. Davenport reports it as “building at 
Rolleston,” and he obtained a male in Cold Overton Wood in 
January, 1884. The late Mr. Widdowson wrote, “ Last winter 
(1883) a pair frequented Lord Wilton’s Park all the winter, but 
did not remain to breed.” Elkington told me of one procured at 
Woodhouse Eaves in 1883, and I purchased from him a female 
bird, shot at Humberstone on Dec. 19th, 1885. 
Gecinus viridis (Linn.). Green Woodpecker; “ Yaffle;” ‘ Rain- 
bird.”— Resident, and generally distributed. I have procured 
specimens from Ansty, Bradgate, Cropston, Kibworth, &c.; and ° 
Davenport writes, “I found on May 13th, 1885, a Green Wood- 
pecker’s nest at Keythorpe, in a small hole in a tree not three 
feet from the ground. On enlargiug it (in no very careful manner) 
I found nothing in it. Passing by on the 18th, to my amazement 
the bird flew out again; this time there were five eggs; by the 
