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LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



LEAST SPOTTED WOODPECKER. LITTLE BLACK AND WHITE WOODPECKER. 



BARRED WOODPECKER. HICKWALL. 

 LITTLE FRENCH WOODPECKER. PUMP-BORER. CRANK-BIRD. 



PLATE LIV. PIG. II. 



Picus minor, LINN^US. PENNANT. 



" varius minor, BEISSON. 



" varius tertius, RAT. 



THE nest, so to call it, is placed at the bottom of a hole in a tree, 

 in some cases found ready made to its hand, and at others adapted by 

 itself to its requirements. 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. 



