1 20 RARE VISITANTS. 



Fam. PICID^. 



GEEAT BLACK WOODPECKEE. Picus martius, Lin- 

 naeus. 

 Hab. Northern Europe. 



One or morej Devonshire, 1785-1790: Latham, Gen. Syn. 



Suppl. p. 104. 

 One shot at Blandford, Dorset, 1799 : Pulteney, Cat. Birds 



Dorset, p. 6. 

 One shot at Whitchurch, Dorset, 1799 : Pulteney, I. c. 

 One said to have been shot in Lancashire by Lord Stanley : 

 Montagu, Orn. Diet. Suppl. 1813; but the statement 

 subsequently shown to be incorrect : CoUingwood, Hist. 

 Faun. Lancashire and Cheshire, p. 16; Zoologist, 1865, 

 pp. 9626, 9627. 



One shot in Battersea Fields, Middlesex : Montagu, op. cit. 



One formerly in collection of Donovan, now in the Derby 

 Museum, Liverpool; said to have been killed in this 

 country : Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 138. 



One or more considered by Yarrell to have occurred in Scot- 

 land, from a statement by Sir Robert Sibbald in his ' His- 

 toria Animalium in Scotia,' p. 15 ; but this statement shown 

 to have been misconstrued : E. C. Buxton, Zoologist, 1865, 

 p. 9730. 



O&e shot near Crediton, in collection of late Mr. Newton, of 

 Okehampton, Devon : Rowe, Nat. Hist. Dartmoor. 



Two killed in Yorkshire : Yarrell, op. cit. 



One in Lincolnshire : Yarrell, op. cit. 



One shot near London about 1830 : Blyth, Field Naturalist, 

 p. 49. 



Two reported to have been killed in Norfolk (Adam White, 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. 17th Nov. 1835) ; but there is no doubt 

 that the species obtained was Picus major : Stevenson, 

 Birds of Norfolk, vol. i. p. 291 ; Zoologist, 1864, p. 9248. 



