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LESSEE SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



LEAST SPOTTED WOODPECKER. LITTLE 

 BLACK AND WHITE WOODPECKER. BARRED WOODPECKER. 



LITTLE TRENCH WOODPECKER. 

 HICKWALL. PUMP-BORER. CRANK-BIRD. 



Picus minor, LINNAEUS. PENNANT. 



" varius minor, BRISSUN. 



" " tertlus, KAY. 



Picus A bird that makes holes in trees, supposed to be the Woodpecker. 

 Minor Less lesser. 



THIS species is found in Europe in France, Italy, Scandi- 

 navia, Siberia, and Holland; in which latter it is rare. 



In Yorkshire one of these birds was shot by Peter Inchbald, 

 Esq., of Storthrs Hall, near Huddersfield, in the winter of 

 1848; and this gentleman writes me word that a nest of the 

 same species, containing five eggs, was found in that neigh- 

 bourhood on the 31st. of May, 1851. In Worcestershire I 

 have known it to occur, as has also W. F. W. Bird, Esq. In 

 Norfolk it breeds, but is rare: one was shot at Blickling, in 

 April, 1847. In Suffolk, one was shot at Haughleigh, near 

 Stowmarket, in 1847. In Sussex a pair bred at Peasmarsh, 

 in the beginning of June, 1849, in a plum tree, only a few 

 yards from a house: a male was shot in 1844, at Arundel; 

 another at Albourne, in December, in 1848; and one was 

 captured at Parham House, having flown in through an open 

 window; a few near Chichester, and others on the eastern 

 side of the county. In Derbyshire, one near Newton, in the 

 parish of Melbourne, December llth., 1844. It has also 

 occurred in Lancashire, Shropshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, 

 not very unfrequently ; Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, 

 Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Cornwall, Herefordshire, Warwickshire, 

 Essex, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Mid- 

 dlesex, not very uncommonly near London -in Kensington 

 Gardens; at Southgate, and in Greenwich Park. In North- 



