114 WRYNECK 
DENDROCOPUS MAJOR (Linn.). GREAT 
SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
In September 1849, as recorded by Mr. Kermode, a 
specimen was shot by Dr. Crellin at Orrisdale, and it is 
still in the collection there. 
About the end of January 1888 (Y, L. M, vol. i pt. i. 
p. 70) an adult male was killed on an oak-tree at Balla- 
killingan, Lezayre, and another of the same sex, also a 
fine mature specimen, shot at the Nunnery, Douglas, on 
February 7, 1899, came into Mr. Kermode’s possession, 
and is now in the Ramsey Museum. 
The Great Spotted Woodpecker becomes rarer northward 
and westward in Britain. All Woodpeckers are rare in 
Ireland, and none has been known to breed, but this has 
occurred by far most frequently, always, as with us, in 
the winter half of the year. Twelve of the thirty-nine 
occurrences recorded by Mr. Ussher were in the counties 
of Antrim and Down, There have been a few instances 
in Kirkcudbrightshire. The species breeds very sparsely in 
north-western England, or in any part of Scotland, but has 
been noted on migration even in Shetland and Orkney, 
and once, very recently, in the Outer Hebrides. 
IYNX TORQUILLA, Linn. WRYNECK. 
Mr. Leach informs me that in 1896 Mr. Philip Kelly, of 
Douglas, brought to him for identification a bird killed at 
the Abbey Lands, Onchan. It proved to be a very fair 
specimen of the Wryneck. It was stuffed by the owner, 
