402 CORACIIFORMES CHAP. 
Himalayan form, there is an admixture, of yellow with the red 
on the crown. Our Greater and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers 
extend throughout Europe and 
North Asia, and reach the Atlantic 
Islands; while some thirty con- 
geners widen the range until it 
includes nearly all the Palaeartic, 
Nearctic, and Indian Regions. They 
are also found south of lat. 20° S. 
in the Neotropical. D. lewconotus 
and D. (Dendrocoptes) medius are 
other European forms, with vary- 
ing races. Picoides is a similarly 
coloured genus of three-toed birds, 
with yellow instead of red on the 
Fic, 95.—Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. 
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Dendrocopus minor. xz. (From head, They inhabit the most 
Bird Life in Sweden. te 
EU OSE) northern forests of both Worlds, 
reaching southward to Central Europe, China, and (west of the Rocky 
Mountains) to New Mexico. P. tridactylus is well-known in Europe. 
Lyngipicus is a large group of small species, which stretch from 
India to the Kuril Islands, Chira, Flores, and Celebes; and, if 
Hargitt is right in considering Picus obsoletus congeneric, from 
North-East Africa to Senegambia. The colours are black or 
olive above, reheved by white and fulvescent below with dark 
stripes or spots, the occiput shewing a band, or two streaks, of 
red; the lateral tail-feathers, moreover, are hardly rigid, approach- 
ing in that respect those of Picwmnus. Dendrobates is a still 
jarger genus of similarly sized birds, varying from nearly uniform 
olive with a red crown, or bright red with white under parts, to 
dull gold-colour, where the lower surface is buff barred with brown; 
the head being in the last case red, but the nape yellow. They 
range from Northern Argentina to Central America. J/esopicus 
goertan, one of half a dozen finely-coloured species found through- 
out most of the Ethiopian Region, has an olive back, long crimson 
feathers on the head and rump, and a greyish breast. 
Thus far all the members of the Family agree in having the 
nostrils covered with bristles. Among those in which the bristles 
are wanting may be mentioned Celeus and the three-toed Ziga java- 
nensis and its congeners, extending from India to Cochin China. 
The last-named has a brilhant golden-orange back, a crimson 
