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and fides of the neck almoft wholly white : it has a ftreak from 

 the under jaw paffing backwards, like the laft, but it is fcarcely 

 perceivable in a fpecimen now before me. 



Brijfon quotes many authors who have described this bird, but 

 I am not clear in its being a diftin£t fpecies ; it is certainly much 

 more fcarce in England than any other. Buffon is reconciled to 

 its being a variety only ; but if fo, this variety k regular, at leaft 

 in all the fpecimens which I have Teen. 



14. Picus minor, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 176. "N ig.— Scop. ann. i. 49. ,N°.£j. 



4- LESSER T_, e petit Pic varie, Brif. orn. iv. p. 4.1. N° ic. 



SPOTTED .... 



.y Le petit Epeiche, Buf oif. vii. p. 62. — PI. enl. 59S. male and female. 



Kleiner bunt Specht, Frifcb, t. 37. — Baumbackterl. Kramer 336. N -5. 



-Picus varjus tertiu3, Rait Syn. p. ^13. N° 6. 



Lefl'er fpotted Woodpecker, Will. orn. 138. pi. 31. — Albin. 3. pi. zo. 



, Br. Zool. N°8 9 . pi. 3j.—Jmer.Zool.W 



Br. Muf. Lev. Maf. 



Description. fTPHIS is certainly the leaft of the European fpecies, but not of 

 the genus, as will' be hereafter mentioned. The length is 

 only five inches and a half: weight fcarce one ounce. The bill 

 is lead-colour : irides red : the upper parts of the body black, 

 ftriated aerofs the back-withwhite : fcapulars and quills fpotted 

 black and white : forehead dirty pale -buff: the crown of the 

 head crimfori-: cheeks and fides of the neck white : the under 

 parts of the body dirty white : the four middle tail feathers are 

 black ; the others black and white : legs lead-colour. 

 Female. The female has the top of the head white, which is red in the 



male .; but neither have the vent red;, as in the two laft fpecies.. . 



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