PRELIMINARY CLASSIFIED NOTES 



and Kintoul, op. ril., 1910, p. 203 ; and Nelaon, B. of York*.. 1907, p. 275). 



<Jrr.it -|.oUr,i-\\ l| M -,Un> o in inv-iil.irh HI Irrl.m.l. .-|,,,i.ill\ on tin- r...i>t of 



Down and other eastern counties, and chiefly " in the last quarter of the year " 

 (cf. rusher and Warren, B. of Inland, 1900, p. 108). As already stated, these 

 probably belong to this form, although no Irish specimens have as yet been deter- 

 mined as regards race. Among the grounds for this supposition is that Irish records 

 are particularly numerous for certain seasons e.g. t the winters 1886-7 and 1889-90 

 which correspond with those of the special immigrations mentioned above. On 

 Heligoland the species is very uncommon, but a strong migration was noticed in 

 October 1889, corresponding to one of those mentioned above (cf . Gatke quoted by 

 Cordeaux. Naturalist, 1890, p. 7). On the East Baltic (Kurische Nehrung) this 

 bird also occurs in specially marked migrations, chiefly of immature birds, at 

 irregular intervals ; t.g., in the autumns of 1903 and 1909 (cf. Thienemann, Journal 

 fur OfniUtologif, April 1904, and July 1910, pp. 559-60). A solitary traveller. 

 [A. L. T.] 



LESSER SPOTTED -WOODPECKER [Dendrocoptu minor 

 (Linnaeus). Barred- woodpecker. French, petit tpeiche ; German, Uinr 

 Buntepecht ; Italian, picchio piccolo]. 



I . Description. The lesser spotted-woodpecker may at once be distinguished 

 by its small size and the white, black-barred back. There is no seasonal change of 

 plumage. (PI. 75.) Length, 6 in. [152 mm.]. The adult male is distinguished by its 

 crimson crown. The forehead is dark brown. There is a black malar stripe and 

 a black superciliary stripe extending backwards to form a broad triangular black 

 patch on the nape, which is continued backwards along the back of the neck to 

 the intencapulare which, with the scapulars, are also black. The rest of the back is 

 white, barred with black. The sides of the head and neck are white. The wings am 

 black, but the median and major coverts have broad subterminal bars of white ; the 

 remiges are also black, with large spots of white on both outer and inner webs, so 

 that, in the closed wing, a series of 5 or 6 distinct transverse bars of white are formed. 

 The median tail feathers are wholly black, the outer black at the base and the rest 

 white barred with black. The under parts are white, but the forepart of the flanks 

 are marked by narrow, sharply defined .-(nations. The female differs from the male 

 in having a whitish, instead of a crimson crown. The juvenile plumage resembles 

 that of the adult, the male having a crimson crown though less well developed than 

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