Picus.] AVES INSESSORES. 151 



120. P. minor, Linn. (Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.) 

 Occiput and nape black : middle of the back, and sca- 

 pulars, with white and black bars : crown of the head 

 red. 



P. minor, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 399. Id. torn. in. p. 283. 

 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Mont. Orn. Diet. Selb. Illust. vol. i. 

 p. 379. pi. 38. f. 4. Barred Woodpecker, Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. 

 p. 140. 



DIMENS. Entire length five inches six lines : length of the bill seven 

 lines and a half : breadth, wings extended, twelve inches. 



DESCRIPT. Forehead dirty white; crown of the head bright red; 

 streak over the eyes, occiput and nape, black ; cheeks and sides of the 

 neck white; from the corners of the lower mandible a black streak 

 directed towards the shoulders : upper part of the back, rump, and lesser 

 wing-coverts, glossy black; the rest of the upper parts, including the 

 middle region of the back, scapulars, and quills, transversely barred with 

 black arid white : all the under parts of a dirty brownish white, with 

 a few fine longitudinal dark streaks on the breast and sides : the four 

 middle tail-feathers glossy black; the three outer ones on each side 

 tipped with white and barred with black : bill and feet dusky lead-colour : 

 irides reddish brown. In the female, the crown is dirty white instead of 

 red. (Egg.) Smooth, delicate white : long, diarn. nine lines and a half; 

 trans, diam. seven lines. 



Much less frequent than either of the preceding species, and only par- 

 tially distributed. Met with in the counties of Gloucester, Wilts, Here- 

 ford, Cambridge, Norfolk, and Suffolk. Said to be very rare in the 

 North of England. Habits and nidification similar to those of the last. 



(7.) P. martins, Linn. (Great Black Woodpecker.) Temm. Man. 

 d'Orn. torn. i. p. 390. Gould, Europ. Birds, part i. Selb. Illust. 

 vol. i. p. 375. pi. D. f. 4. 



This species, which is not uncommon in the northern parts of Europe, 

 has been included in the British lists principally on the authority of 

 Drs. Latham and Pulteney. The former author states (Syn. Supp. p. 104.) 

 that it has been sometimes seen in Devonshire ; the fatter ( Cat. Dors. 

 p. 6.) that it has been more than once shot in Dorsetshire. No specimen, 

 however, known to have been certainly killed in this country, exists in 

 any of our museums, and there is strong reason to doubt the reality of its 

 claims to a place in the British Fauna. 



<8.) P. villosus, Linn. (Hairy Woodpecker.) Lewin, Brit. Birds, 

 vol. n. pi. 50. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



A pair of this species, in the collection of the late Dowager Duchess of 

 Portland, were said to have been shot near Halifax in Yorkshire. It is 

 supposed, however, that this was an error, and that the above locality had 

 been confounded with Halifax in North America, where the species is not 

 uncommon. 



(9.) P. tridactylus, Linn. (Three-toed Woodpecker.) Temm. Man. 

 d'Orn. torn. i. p. 401. Don. Brit. Birds, vol. vi. pi. 143. 



A native of the northern parts of Europe and America. According 

 to Donovan, has been shot in the North of Scotland. This, however, is 

 probably a mistake. 



