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IX.—WNotes on the Ornithology of Cornwall, for the year 1872-3.— By 
E. HEARLE Ropp, Penzance. 
|e looking over the pages of the “ Zoologist ” for the last year, 
where I have been in the habit of recording any fact of 
interest occurring in the ornithological history of our county, I 
do not see anything that deserves much attention,—certainly no 
new species has come under my notice; nor do I see any record, 
from any other naturalist, of any great importance. 
It may be well to notice, as a point of interest, that occasion- 
ally we are visited, abruptly and without any apparent specific 
cause, by birds hitherto extremely rare and almost unknown in 
this district, and which are common enough throughout Britain 
and even in the eastern parts of the county. This is the case 
with our common Green Woodpecker, so well known elsewhere, 
but of which only one or two examples, over a period of nearly 
half a century, have come under my notice as having appeared in 
the Land’s End district ; but, during the last year, I happen to 
know of several being dispersed over the district, and, unfortu- 
nately, some were killed. I believe that the Woodpecker has been 
seen, not unfrequently, in the large woods at Tregothnan, and at 
other woodland places in the neighbourhood of Truro; and what 
I have stated in reference to their appearance in this district during 
the past year, appears to have full confirmation by the increased 
numbers in your neighbourhood, no less than seven having been 
seen together at Bosvigo, according to a paragraph which I read 
in a daily paper. The Green Woodpecker is well known in the 
large woodlands in the eastern part of the county. There also 
(although more local) may be seen the two other common species, 
viz., the Greater and the Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers ; all three 
species breed annually in the woods at Trebartha. 
I continue to receive accounts of the general distribution of 
one of the most beautiful of our resident Warblers, the Dartford 
Warbler,—a species which, formerly, was only occasionally, and at 
“uncertain intervals, seen in the county, and was almost unknown 
in the West of Cornwall. Who will say, after this, that we may 
