. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . that on the 3rd of August 1894 a speci-men of this bird in immature plumage was captured ina net placed over a strawberry bed in the garden of of Arniston, Mid-Lothian. 1 The Annals of Scottish Xaturul Histonj, 1894, pp. 195, 196. ■^ r^^., y:^1k^:fz^i^:^^^^ V?^^-. PICARI^. ( 359 ) PICIDM. THE GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER PIED WOODPECKEK, WITWALL, AVOOD PIE, FRENCH PIE. Dendrocopus major. My friend Dr. Charles St
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . that on the 3rd of August 1894 a speci-men of this bird in immature plumage was captured ina net placed over a strawberry bed in the garden of of Arniston, Mid-Lothian. 1 The Annals of Scottish Xaturul Histonj, 1894, pp. 195, 196. ■^ r^^., y:^1k^:fz^i^:^^^^ V?^^-. PICARI^. ( 359 ) PICIDM. THE GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER PIED WOODPECKEK, WITWALL, AVOOD PIE, FRENCH PIE. Dendrocopus major. My friend Dr. Charles Stuart of Chirnside has been sogood as to let me know that this species was found byMr. John Ferguson, Duns, nesting in a hole in an ash treein the woods of Duns Castle, in the summer of 1894.^ Mr. William Smith, late gamekeeper at Duns Castle,has informed me that on the 12th of July 1887 he shota young Great Spotted Woodpecker in Duns Castle woods,which, by its appearance, had only recently left the nest;and that a few days afterwards he noticed three otherssitting on the top of a tall larch tree in the same plant-ations near St. Marys Cottage. 1 Mr. William , , records that he found the Great SpottedWoodpecker rearing its young in the same tree in Duns Castle Woods on the 29tliof May 1895.—Annals of licoltish Natural History, July 1895.
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