322 LEST SPOTTED WOODPECKER. Class II. 



in this is of a rich crimson ; the crown of the 

 head in the male of the former is black ; and the 

 crimson is in the form of a bar on the hind part. 

 Birds thus marked have been shot in Lanca- 

 shire^ and other parts of Englaiid ; but I am 

 doubtful whether they are varieties, or distinct 

 species.* 



3. Lest Picus minor. P. albo nigroque Le petit Pic varie. Brisson av. 



SPOTTED. varius, vertice rubro, crisso iv. 41. Hisi. d'ois. v'n. 62 



testaceo. Lath. hid. orn.22g. PL Enl. 5Q8. 



id. S2/71. li. 566. id. Sup. i. Scopoli. No. 55. 



107. Hasselquist itiii. 242. 



Gesner av. 70g. Kleiner Bunt-Specht. Frisch, 



Aldr. av. I. 416. i. 37. 



Lesser spotted Woodpecker, or Kleiner Baumhackl. Kram. 



Hickwall. Wil. orn. 138. 336. 



Raii Syn. av. 43. Br. Zool. 79. plate E. Arct. 



Picus minor. Gin. Lin. 437- Zool. i. 326. 



Faun. Suec. \Q2. 



Descrip- X HIS species is the lest of the genus, scarcely 

 weighing an ounce ; the length is six inches ; the 

 breadth eleven. The forehead is of a dirty 

 white ; the crown of the head (in the male) of a 

 beautiful crimson ; the cheeks and sides of the 



* It seems now ascertained, that they are merely the young of 

 the greater spotted woodpecker, the head of which, in its first 

 plumage, is entirely of a crimson color. When they moult the 

 crown of the head in both sexes becomes black, but the cock 

 aftervvards obtains the beautiful bar of crimson at the poll, which 

 is Avanting in the hen. Ed. 



