WOODPECKER, LESSER SPOTTED. 
Picus MINoR, Lin. 
This species occurs in most of the southern, 
eastern, and midland counties of England. Its 
habits are similar to those of the last-named 
species. It usually prefers the higher branches 
of trees, although it by no means confines itself 
to them, and is so intent on searching for 
its food that it pays little attention to a person 
coming to watch or shoot it. It produces occa- 
sionally an extraordinarily loud, rapid, vibra- 
tory noise, somewhat resembling that made by the 
boring of a large auger in hard wood, but its ordi- 
nary voice isa feeble squeak several times repeated. 
The eggs, five in number and of a pinkish white, 
are deposited in the bottom of a hole. 
WREN, COMMON. 
TROGLODYTES VULGARIS, Flem. 
The Wren is found in all parts of this kingdom, 
inhabiting even the northern isles of Scotland, in 
which it is a constant resident. It frequents stone 
walls, fragments of rocks, thickets of gorse, hedge 
banks, woods, and gardens. Its food consists of 
