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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Mr. Wadham records one shot at Wootton, in the Isle 
of Wight, about six years ago. 
The little White says about this bird is much to the 
point : " They fly volatu undoso, opening and closing their 
wings at every stroke, and so are always rising or falling in 
curves." And again : " The woodpecker sets up a sort of 
loud and hearty laugh." 
In a letter to Marsham, dated 1792, he asks, " Pray, do 
woodpeckers ever damage and bore your timber trees } 
. . . . I had a brood this year in my outlet, hatched, I 
suspect, in the bodies of some old willows." 
He does not, however, mention the species of wood- 
pecker severally. 
Genus— /^/^x 
111. lynx torqiiilla. Wryneck. 
Cuckoo's Mate. Barley Bird. Weet Bird. 
Little Eten Bird. Rinding Bird. Snake Bird. 
A summer visitor to all parts of the county and the 
Isle of Wight, arriving early in April and departing in 
September. 
It is not an equally common bird in all parts, but is 
perhaps most plentiful along the south coast and in the 
island. 
Bury considered this a common bird in the Isle of Wight, 
and mentions that he knew of a pair that reared their 
brood for years successively in a hole in one of the uprights 
of a rustic cottage. ^ It has also accepted the hospitality 
^"Zoologist." 1845. 
