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PICUS STRIOLATUS. THE STRIATED WOOD- 

 PECKER. 



LKSSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. HICKWALL. CRANKBIRD. 



Picus minor. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 17G. 



Picus minor. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 229. 



Pic ^peichette. Picus minor. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 399. 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Picus minor. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Selb. lUustr. L 379. 



Picus minor. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 151. 



Male with the forehead white, the crowii, crimson, margined 

 with black, the hach and scapulars transversely barred with black 

 and ichite ; sides of the head and neck white, with a black band ; 

 lower parts brownish-white, breast and sides icith longitudinal 

 dusky lines. Female similar, but with the crown white. 



Male. — This species, which is of less frequent occurrence than 

 the last, being confined to the southern and middle parts of 

 England, is much inferior in size to that species, its length 

 being little more than five inches. The bill is short, tapering, 

 with the point bevelled and abrupt ; the lateral ridges of the 

 upper mandible nearer the margins than the central ridge. The 

 head is rather large, ovato-oblong ; the neck short ; the feet 

 short, with the outer toe about the same length as the third ; 



