BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE lei 
is believed by Mr. William Evans to be due, not to 
Scandmavjan visitors, but to English birds extending thdr 
r^'Z r Harvie-Brown'sVap 
Wl J Woodpecker's resuscitation in 
bootland since 1841 or 1851 "+ wifJ, « j • ^. '° 
shows the satisfactory priress Llotlld ' T^' 
made in recent years ' 
Some of the examples which have occurred locally in 
autumn and winter may have been of Scandinavian origin 
and thus would belong to the typical form D. mujor of 
Wus, which is larger, with a more powerful biU arpTler 
STdlr form4 %his, however c'ould 
The f ^'^'"•"f ^ a ^'^'•eful comparison of spec mens 
The photograph of the Great Spotted Woodpecker here 
reproduced was obtained by Mr. D Legard 
THE BRITISH LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
Dendrocopus minor comminutus, Hartert. 
Has occurred once ; pouibly twice. 
Howard Saunders states on the authority of Mr. R. Service 
^ei^r ""^T''' 1^^-^ been obtained in 
the Solway district, at long intervals, since 1860.S One 
of these " examples " was a Dumfriesshire specimen ani 
IS referred to thus by William Hastings in 889 • " I 
once had a specimen of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker shot 
stce'f ""'^'^f "^^^r^" '-"^ set none 
since. II The correct date, however, so Mr. R. Service in- 
forms me, was given him as 1865 by a gardener at Amisfield 
A Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is beheved to htve been 
* Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1908, pp. 216-218. 
t Op. cit., 1908, pp. 210-216. 
X British Birds (Mag.), Vol. L, 221. 
§ Man. Brit. Birds, 1899, p. 277. 
II Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist. Soc, February 1st, 1889. 
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