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that they are completely moulted by the end of 

 October. The birds in question were shot in June. 

 The young of P. major, obtained in July, were in 

 deep moult. 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Picus minor. In 

 this county of more frequent occurrence than the 

 Greater Spotted Woodpecker, or even the Green 

 Woodpecker. I have a pair in my collection which 

 were shot in Bishop's Wood, Hampstead ; and I 

 have seen four other specimens which were ob- 

 tained there in 1861. 



A pair of these birds was shot at Turnham Green 

 in April, 1854, as recorded in ' The Zoologist ' for 

 that year (p. 4339) ; and in the spring of 1859 llx. 

 Spencer obtained a pair at Caen Wood, Hampstead. 

 As recently as April, 1864, a pair of these handsome 

 little birds was observed in a garden at Hampstead, 

 and on the 17th of that month the female (since 

 presented to me) was shot there. With regard to 

 this pair, a friend, writing to me from Hampstead, 

 says : " On April 17th I was in the Priory all day. 

 About one o'clock, as I was leaving to go home, I 

 noticed a beautiful male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 

 upon a tree near me. After watching him for some 

 time, I went home for my gun, but came back just 

 in time to see his departure. I could then hear one 

 tapping for a long time in the next garden ; but, 

 although I lay down on the grass and waited 

 patiently, three hours elapsed before any bird of 



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