LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



INSESSOXES. 



SCASSORES. 



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PIOID^E. 



THE LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



THE BARRED WOODPECKER, AND HICKWALL. 



Picus minor. 



Picas minor, Least Spotted Woodpecker, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 322. 

 Lesser MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



The fiarred BE WICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 144. 



Lesser Spotted FLEM. Brit. An. p. 90. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 379. 



JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 151. 



. GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Pic epeichette, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. 



p. 399. 



THE LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER, Little Black-and- 

 White Woodpecker, and Barred Woodpecker, as it is also 

 sometimes called, has the characters and actions, as well as 

 the colours, of the Black-and- White Woodpecker, last de- 

 scribed, while its small size, and its retiring habits, enable 



