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most prominent. The lower parts are yellowish 

 white, having the black of the sides of the neck 

 stretching across the breast in the form of a cres- 

 cent shaped half collar, the vent and under tail 

 coverts crimson red. The quills with spots 

 of a square shape on the outer webs, on the inner 

 ones rounded, those on the first quill being 

 placed near the base, and only two in number. 

 Tail black, the two outer feathers yellowish white 

 for two-thirds of their length, barred with black, 

 the third feather tipped with yellowish white. 

 In the female, the red occipital band is wanting. 

 In the young birds, the crown of the head is 

 entirely crimson previous to the first moult. 



LESSER-SPOTTED WOODPECKER, DENDROCO- 

 PUS MINOR. Picus minor, Linn.Dendrocopus 

 minor, Swain. Lesser-spotted Woodpecker of 

 British authors. This pretty little species is 

 more local than the last, and has a much less 

 extended range in Britain, being unknown, we 

 believe, in the Scotish and Irish fauna, and being 

 found chiefly in a few of the southern and western 

 counties of England. According to Mr Gould 

 it is very common in the parks and woods 

 around London, being always to be found in 

 Kensington gardens, &c. where it seems partial 

 to the elm trees, keeping, in great part, to the 

 topmost branches ; and is also recorded as being 

 met with in Gloucester, Wilts, Hereford, Cam- 

 bridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, Shropshire, Derbyshire, 



