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Mr. E. J. Balston, on June 27, 1902, watched a Great 

 Spotted Woodpecker in Haberdasher's Wood, feeding its 

 young, from about 3.28 till 3.52 p.m. It fed them four 

 times, the first three times in about thirteen to fourteen 

 minutes. 



On April 1, 1906, a Great Spotted Woodpecker was 

 observed searching the trunks of trees, evidently for a 

 suitable nesting place. 



LESSEE SPOTTED WOODPECKEE. 



Dendrocopus viinor (Linn^us). S.N., i., p. 17G 



(1766). 



The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is decidedly a rare 

 bird in Kent. 



According to Morris it has occurred in Greenwich 

 Park. Mr. A. Skinner obtained a female on January 13, 

 1869, in Faversham Churchyard. There are specimens 

 in the Maidstone Museum, one a male from Chart Sutton, 

 from Mrs. T. Balston, and a female obtained at Linton, 

 January 11, 1888, by Mr. H. Kennard, and an egg from 

 Boughton, taken June 20, 1885, by Master Eolfe. It is 

 included in the following districts : Bethersden, Captain 

 J. D. Cameron ; Cobham, Eev. C. H. Fielding. It has 

 been found in Blean Wood near Boughton, Mr. E. J. 

 Balston. Mr. Filmer says it is rare in the Orlestone 

 district. Folkestone, H. Ullyett, and Stourmouth, G. 

 Dowker. 



There is a specimen in Mr. W. Oxenden's collection in 

 the Canterbury Museum, which was obtained at St. 

 Alban's Court, Kent, in 1822. 



Mr. W. Prentis says " it has been met with and 



