. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . pecimens of this bird have been met within this country:—Two were shot in Yorkshire, and unfortu-nately not presei^v^ed; two were seen by Thomas Meynell, Jun.,Esq., in the groutids of his fathers seat, the Friarage, atYarm; and one was shot the first week in March, 1846, nearRipley, the seat of Sir William A. Ingilby, Bart.; one shotby Lord Stanley in Lancashire; one on the trunk of a tree,in Battersea fields, near London, in 1(805; one in the col-lection of Mr. Donovan; one in Lincolnshire; two in a woodnear Scole, in Norfolk; a pair
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . pecimens of this bird have been met within this country:—Two were shot in Yorkshire, and unfortu-nately not presei^v^ed; two were seen by Thomas Meynell, Jun.,Esq., in the groutids of his fathers seat, the Friarage, atYarm; and one was shot the first week in March, 1846, nearRipley, the seat of Sir William A. Ingilby, Bart.; one shotby Lord Stanley in Lancashire; one on the trunk of a tree,in Battersea fields, near London, in 1(805; one in the col-lection of Mr. Donovan; one in Lincolnshire; two in a woodnear Scole, in Norfolk; a pair seen several times in a woodnear Christchurch, in Hampshire; one shot in a nurserygarden near Blandford, in Dorsetshire; and another at Whit-church, in the same county; both recorded by Dr. , according to Dr. Latham, in Devonshire and someof the southern counties; and one in Scotland, as recordedby Sir Robert Sibbald. In addition to all these, J. McIntosh, Esq., of Cliarminster,Dorsetsliire, records m The Naturalist, No. 1, page 20; that. BLACK WOODPECKER. ELACK WOODPECKEE. 73 he has known these birds to occur more than once atCharborough Park, in that county, the seat of J. S. W. Drax, Esq.; and also to have built several times, one pairhe believes, three successive years, at Claremont, Surrey. In Ireland, the Black Woodpecker has not yet been seen. The gloomy recesses of the sunless pine woods are theproper places of this sable species. In the Black Forest heis at home, and does not consider himself as an Exile ofthe Landes. These birds are of a morose and unsociable are the most that associate together; a third is, imme-diately on its appearance, banished from their Black Woodpecker is a strong, active, and lively restless nature drives it from spot to spot; and whenaware of being observed too nearly, it endeavours to ejffectits escape, unnoticed by its pursuers, at an incredible rate,but may generally be detec
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