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species appears to be a much later breeder than 

 that last described ; they showed no signs of 

 going to nest until about June 5. I fancy most 

 of the woodpeckers are partial migrants, for in our 

 Wermland forests we often in the winter kill both 

 this and the grey-headed green woodpecker (Picus 

 canus, Gm.), and the white-rumped woodpecker 

 (P. leuconotuS) Tern.), but we never find the nest 

 of either in Wermland ; but since my return (on 

 Oct. 11) I shot a Picus tridactylus, a bird of the 

 year, which must have been bred near Gardsjo. I 

 never met with either the grey-headed or white- 

 rumped woodpecker in Lapland, although I saw 

 one of the latter sitting on a fence by the roadside, 

 between Umea and Piteii, on our journey up. The 

 egg of the three-toed woodpecker is rather less 

 than that of the great spotted woodpecker, and 

 more tapering towards the small end. 



The great spotted woodpecker (Picus major, 

 Lin. ; " store hackspett," Sw.), and the lesser 

 spotted woodpecker (Picus minor, Lin. ; " tsitsach 

 tschaitne," Lap.; " mindre hackspett," Sw.), were 

 both met with here, but thejgreater spotted was 

 the rarer of the two. I consider the egg of the 

 lesser spotted woodpecker a most difficult one to 

 obtain, well authenticated. They appear to go to 

 nest late, and I have always obtained the eggs out 

 of a hole in a small dead fir or aspen. The num- 



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