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been picked up near the viUage on Stepends Farm, under the 
SwT "^^'"^ " ^^'^ presumably flown and 
k,Ued ,tself. A Green Woodpecker is beUeved to have been 
seenatKinmount (Cummertrees) in July, 1908. Mr W H 
Veitch anforms me that the gamekeeper who saw "it was 
SfbL H ?^'^r' d-ing a previous residence fn 
rre ttd he^ H T*^. unhesitatingly identified 
tne bird he had seen as the former. 
The Green Woodpecker is not a migratory species and 
hough common in the south and plentiful inVe SSaS 
It becomes rare m the northern counties of England. 
THE BRITISH GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
Dendrocopus major anglicus, Hartert. 
A r«e .„d very loci resident; and an irregular early winler-visitor. 
Dr. Archbald in his "Account of the Curiosities at Drum- 
ness, ' wr^ten about 1684, says : " I mention none oth" 
Itowls] as bemg ordinary, save woodpeckers."* Sir WiUiam 
Jardine n 1839 wrote of the Great Spotted Woodpecke" 
a« partiallymigratory, birds having been obtained in October 
and November ; f and a specimen labelled " (No 144^ 
Tm''^ " P^'"'* possession of the Roya 
SCO tish Museum, Edinburgh, from the Jardine collection. 
(Pir!lV. ''''^"'t'^' The black and white Woodpecker 
P.c«5) has been shot at Kinmount [Cummertrees] within 
!friir.l Tt ^r'-r* ^ 'P'"'"^**" '^^'^'^ ^^^^ attained at 
HaUeaths (Lochmaben) was exhibited to the local Natural 
History Society on February 14th, 1871. In 1879 there 
IS strong evidence but not actual proof , that a nest was found 
in a hole m a trunk of an oak tree at Halleaths (Lochmaben) ; 
• Sibbald's MS. Collections, p. 228. 
t 2fat. Lib., 1839, Vol. XI., p. 351. 
I Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist. Soc, May 5th, 1868. 
