PICID^E. 213 



GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER, Picus major. 

 Provincial, French Woodpecker. Scarcer than 

 the last, but specimens are procured almost every 

 year, either in the adult or immature state. 



LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER, Picus minor. 

 Provincial, Little French Woodpecker. By far 

 the rarest of the three species. A male was shot in 

 1 844 at Arundel ; another at Albourne in Decem- 

 ber in 1848; and one was captured at Parham 

 House, which had flown into a room through the 

 open window. It has also been killed near Chi- 

 chester, and occasionally in the eastern division 

 of the county. 



WRYNECK, Yunx torquilla. Provincial, Rind- 

 ing Bird. One of the few local epithets worth 

 recording.* So termed in many parts of Sussex 



* I confess that I do not attach so much importance to 

 provincial nomenclature as it would appear to possess in thfr 

 eyes of some persons. The local names in this Catalogue 

 are but few : they have been culled from a heterogeneous 

 mass which had accumulated in my note-books, and which 

 might be supposed to have originated in the Tower of 

 Babel. I have noticed only such as appeared to be expres- 

 sive of some quality, or property of, or circumstance relating 

 to the birds themselves such as " the barley bird," "the 

 rinding bird," "the parson-gull," "the duck-hawk," &c. 

 or those which, seeming sufficiently established by gene- 

 ral usage in their respective districts to have superseded the 

 oFdinary and recognized names, might therefore be practi- 



