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In November 1872 a young bird about three-quarters 

 grown was shot in Clenston Wood ; one was shot 

 at Bloxworth by the Kev. O. P. Cambridge ; another 

 at Little Bridy by the Kev. A. E. Eaton ; a third 

 passed through the hands of Mr. Hart of Christ- 

 church, which was shot at Shaftesbury ; and a fourth 

 was shot at Wareham in February 1 866. 



LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. Dendrocopus minor, (L.) 



Tarrell, ii. p. 477; Ibis List, p. 78; Picus minor, Harting, 

 p. 32 ; Dresser, v. p. 53 ; Seebohm, ii. p. 359; Pulteney's 

 List, p. 6. 



The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is also a resident, 

 and generally distributed in suitable localities. A 

 pair built a nest and reared a brood at Bridehead 

 (Rev. A. E. Eaton). One in my collection was shot 

 at Houghton, and I have a note of another shot at 

 Long Bridy in May 1885. 



MIDDLE SPOTTED WOODPECKER. Dendrocopus 

 medius, (L.) 



Ibis List, p. 78; Picus medius, Harting, p. 122; Dresser, v. 

 p. 47 ; Pulteney's List, p. 6. 



Although there is no satisfactory evidence of the 

 occurrence in England of the Middle Spotted Wood- 

 pecker, for which the young of D. major has some- 

 times been mistaken, it is nevertheless included by 

 Pulteney in his catalogue of the birds of Dorset. 



