. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . eus, Lesson. alpinus et montanus, Brehm. Picus crissoleucus, Brandt. leucopygus, emus crissoleucus et Kamtchatkensis, Bonaparte. Dreizehiger specht, Of the Germans. Tretaaet Spette, Of the Norwegians. Tretaig Hackspett, Of the Swedes. Specific Characters.—Only three toes, which distinguish it at once. Crestof male yellow. General plmnage black and white. I have been requested, by a distinguished British ornithologist tointroduce this bird on the grounds that there is really not the slightestproof beyond the st
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . eus, Lesson. alpinus et montanus, Brehm. Picus crissoleucus, Brandt. leucopygus, emus crissoleucus et Kamtchatkensis, Bonaparte. Dreizehiger specht, Of the Germans. Tretaaet Spette, Of the Norwegians. Tretaig Hackspett, Of the Swedes. Specific Characters.—Only three toes, which distinguish it at once. Crestof male yellow. General plmnage black and white. I have been requested, by a distinguished British ornithologist tointroduce this bird on the grounds that there is really not the slightestproof beyond the statement of Donovan for including it in the English,fauna. Mr. Robert Gray alludes to the subject in his Birds of theWest of Scotland/ merely stating that no specimen since tbe days ofDonovan has occurred in Scotland; and Mr, Dresser is equally decisivein his Birds of Europe. I have therefore no hesitation in includingit in my book. The Three-toed Woodpecker is a truly northern bird, being foundprincipally in Scandinavia, Siberia, Carpathian Russia, Switzerland, the. T H R E E - T O K D WOODPECKER, THEEE-TOED WOODPECKER. 67 Tyrol, Austria, and the Amoor region. It has also occurred in Sals-burg, Savoy, Bohemia, Galicia, and Poland. In a private letter the late Mr. Wheelwright writes to me,—Thisbird, the Three-toed Woodpecker, is scarcely so common anywhere inSweden as any of the others; but in Lapland it is the commonest ofall the species. It comes into Wermerland in the winter, but does notI think breed with us. It has never been seen in Scania, althoughit has once been shot in Denmark. It is not shy, and prefers levelto rocky woods. In the winter all the Woodpeckers in our forestssecrete themselves by day in holes of trees. In all the Woodpeckersthe colours appear to grow more distinct with In his Ten Years in Sweden, he further remarks, It is commonduring the breeding-season from the north of Wermerland up to atleast Torneo Lapland. In the winter they wander further
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