952 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
defined spots of white on the outer webs; all the rest 
of the quills are black, spotted with white on both 
webs; the feathers of the tail are very strong and 
pointed, except the two outer on each side, which 
are rounded at the top; the four middle feathers are 
black, the two next are tipped with white, with a spot 
of black in it, and all the rest are white towards the 
tips, spotted with black, and black at the base; the 
throat is white; all the rest of the under parts dirty 
white, except the vent and under tail-coverts, which 
are red; legs and toes dusky grey; claws black. 
Yarrell says the young birds of the year ‘‘do not 
ditfer from the adult, except in having the whole of 
the top of the head red, not so bright as the red 
patch at the back of the neck of the old male, nor so 
pure, having a few black feathers mixed with it. 
The egg is a shining white, like that of the last 
species, but smaller in proportion to the size of the 
bird. 
Lessrr SpottepD WoopreckEer, Picus minor. 
The Lesser Spotted, or as it is sometimes called 
the ‘‘ Barred” Woodpecker, I believe to be much 
more common than the last-mentioned species: it 
certainly is so in my own neighbourhood, where I 
have never met with the larger species, nearer than 
the one just before mentioned. ‘There appears, 
however, to be some doubt as to which is the more 
common: the Rev. A. P. Morres, writing in the 
‘Zoologist’ for 1865, asks the question, and adds 
