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SOANSORES. 
PICIDJE. 
GREAT BLACK WOODPECKER, 
PlCUS MARTIUS. 
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PLATE LXI. FIG. I. 
To the several instances mentioned by Mr. Yarrell, in 
which the Great Black Woodpecker has been seen in this 
country, I may add one, communicated by Mr. T. Meynell 
of York, who says that he well remembers having seen 
a pair of these birds in the pleasure-grounds attached to 
the Friarage, his father’s residence at Yarm, in Yorkshire. 
We saw them but twice in the Norwegian forests, look¬ 
ing, when flying at a short distance, much like a crow; 
their nesting-places were like those of the other species, 
in holes in the trunks of trees. The eggs are, according 
to Temminck, three in number; they are, like those of all 
our species of woodpeckers, of a pure white and glossy, 
as though they had been varnished. To the kindness of 
Mr. Wilmot I am indebted for the use of this rare egg to 
draw. 
