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LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER, 



(Picus minor.) 



* 



P. albo nigroque varius, vertice rubro, crisso testaceo. 

 Woodpecker varied with black and white, crown of the head 



red, vent testaceous. 

 Picus minor. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 176. 19. Lin. Faun. Suec. 102. 



Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 437. Lath. Ind. Orn. \. 22Q. 15. 

 Picus varius minor. Eriss. 4. 41. 15. 

 Le petit Epeiche. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 62. Buff. PI. Enl. 



598. 1. male. 2. female. 

 Lesser spotted Woodpecker. Pen. Erit. Zool. 1. 87- 37 Pen. 



Arct. Zool. 2. 278. E. Lewin. Brit. Birds. 49. Don. Brit. 



Birds. 2. 36. Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 120^ Montague. Brit. 



Birds. 2. Mont. Sup. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 566. 14. Lath. 



Syn. Sup. 108. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 140. 

 /3. albo nigroque varius , vertice nucha cerviceque nigro-griseis> 



corpore subtus Jlavescente nigro-maculato. 

 Varied with black and white, with the crown, top, and sides of 



the neck blackish grey ; body beneath yellowish spotted with 



black. 

 Petit pic d'Antigue. Sonner. Voy. 118. 77. 



THIS small species is in length only five inches 

 and a half: beak lead-coloured : irides red : cheeks 

 and sides of the neck white, bounded by black 

 above and below : crown crimson, bounded on 

 each side with black, which, joining behind, runs 

 down in a peak on the back of the neck : forehead 

 dirty white : breast and belly the same : upper 

 parts of the body black barred with white : scapu- 

 lars and quills spotted with black and white : lesser 

 wing-coverts entirely black : four middle tail-fea- 



