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A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Order HALCYONES 



Family ALCEDINID^ 

 Genus ALCEDO Linnaeus 

 220. Alcedo atihis ispida L. 

 The King-fisher. 



Resident, breeds, but unknown 

 Caithness, Shetlands, one Ork- 

 neys, one O. Hebrides : mi- 

 grates locally 



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Order P I C 1 

 Family PICTD^ 

 Genus PICUS Linnaeus 



221. Picus viridis virescens (Brehm) 

 The'Green Woodpecker. 



Genus DRYO BATES Boie 



222. Dryobates major major (L.) 



The Northern Great Spotted Wood- 

 pecker. 



223. Dryobates major anglicus (Hart.) 



The British Great Spotted Wood- 

 pecker. 



224. Dryobates minor comminutus (Hart.) 



The British Lesser Spotted Wood- 

 pecker. 



Resident, breeds England, 

 Wales : rare vagrant Scotland, 

 Ireland .... 



Scarce winter-visitor, somewhat 

 irregular, periodically consider- 

 able numbers 



Resident, breeds G. Britain, 

 n. to Argyll, Perth, and recently 

 to Spey Valley, not Ireland 



Resident, breeds England, 

 Wales : rare vagrant Scotland, 

 possibly Ireland 



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Genus JYNX Linnaeus 



225. Jynx torquilla torquilkt L. 

 The Wryneck. 



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 Summer-visitor, breeds England 

 n. to Cheshire and Durham, 

 rarely Wales : also passage - 

 migrant e. G. Britain and n. 

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Order CUCULI 

 Family CUCULID^E 



Genus CUCULUS Linnaeus 



226. Cuculus canorus canorus L. 



The Cuckoo. 



Genus CLAMATOR Kaup 



227. Clamator glandarius (L.) 



The Great Spotted Cuckoo. 



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Summer-visitor, breeds, but only 



migrant Shetlands : also passage - 



migrant .... 51 



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Genus COCCYZUS Vieillot 



^2,8. Coccyzus americanus americanus (L.) Rare vagrant 



The American Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



229. Coccyzus erythropthalmus (Wilson) One, Ireland . 



The American Black-billed Cuckoo. 



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