LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



PICUS MINOR. 

 Family PICID^E. Genus PICUS. 



Barred Woodpecker Little Black and White Woodpecker 

 Hickwall. 



The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is thinly distributed 

 and resident in most counties south of Yorkshire. In 

 other parts of the British Isles it is very rare indeed. 

 Its habits differ little from those of the other Wood- 

 peckers. It seems however to have a greater liking 

 for the tops of tall trees than the Great Spotted 

 Woodpecker, and this fact, coupled with its great sly- 

 ness and anxiety to put the tree trunk between itself 

 and its observer, leads no doubt to its being frequently 

 overlooked. It will work round and round a tree, 



