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LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
LEAST SPOTTED WOODPECKER. LITTLE 
BLACK AND WHITE WOODPECKER. BARRED WOODPECKER. 
LITTLE FRENCH WOODPECKER. 
HICKWALL. PUMP-BORER. CRANK-BIRD. 
Picus minor, LINNZUS. PENNANT. 
“© varius minor, Brisson. 
oP “  tertius, Ray. 
Picus—A bird that makes holes in trees, supposed to be the Woodpecker. 
Minor—Less—lesser. 
THis species is found in Europe—in France, Italy, Scandi- 
navia, Siberia, and Holland; in which latter it is rare. 
In Yorkshire one of these birds was shot by Peter Inchbald, 
Esq., of Storthes Hall, near Huddersfield, in the winter of 
1848; and this gentleman writes me word that a nest of the 
same species, containing five eggs, was found in that neigh- 
bourhood on the 31st. of May, 1851. In Worcestershire I 
have known it to occur, as has also W. F. W. Bird, Esq. In 
Norfolk it breeds, but is rare: one was shot at Blickling, in 
April, 1847. In Suffolk, one was shot at Haughleigh, near 
Stowmarket, in 1847. In Sussex a pair bred at Peasmarsh, 
in the beginning of June, 1849, in a plum tree, only a few 
yards from a house: a male was shot in 1844, at Arundel; 
another at Albourne, in December, in 1848; and one was 
captured at Parham House, having flown in through an open 
window; a few near Chichester, and others on the eastern 
side of the county. In Derbyshire, one near Newton, in the 
parish of Melbourne, December 11th., 1844. It has also 
occurred in Lancashire, Shropshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, 
not very unfrequently; Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, 
Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Cornwall, Herefordshire, Warwickshire, 
Essex, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Mid- 
dlesex, not very uncommonly near London—in Kensington 
Gardens; at Southgate, and in Greenwich Park. In North- 
