LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER 



LEAST SPOTTED WOODPECKER BARRED WOODPECKER- 

 LITTLE BLACK AND WHITE WOODPECKER HICKW ALL 

 CRANK-BIRD. 



PLATE LIV. FIGURE II. 



Pints minor, .... LINNAEUS. PENNANT. 



Dendrowpus minor, . . . NEWTON. 



THE nest of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is placed at 

 the bottom of a hole in a tree, often in the highest 

 branches of poplars, but sometimes even as low as pollard 

 willows ; in some cases holes are used that were previously 

 existing, these being adapted by the bird itself to its require- 

 ments. Sometimes more than one hole is either wholly or 

 in part thus fashioned, though only one can be finally 

 occupied. 



The eggs, generally five in number, are white ; they are 

 hatched in fourteen days. 



