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PICUS MINOR 



(LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER.) 



Picus minor, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 176 (1766). 



Bendrocopus minor, Koch, Syst. d. Baier. Zool. p. 73 (1816). 



Bryobates minor, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 326. 



Picus hortorum, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 192 (1831). 



Picus striolatus, Macgill. Brit. B. iii. p. 86 (1840). 



Picus ledouci, Malh. Mem. Acad. Roy. Metz, ii. p. 242 (1842). 



Pipripicus minor, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 8 (1854). 



Piculus hortorum, Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 274. 



Piculus herbarum, id. torn. cit. p. 274. 



Piculus minor, id. torn. cit. p. 274. 



Piculus crassirostris, id. torn. cit. p. 274. 



Piculus pusillus, id. torn. cit. p. 274. 



Xylocopus minor, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. v. p. 51 (1863). 



Little Spotted Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Hickwcdl, Crank-bird, Pump-borer, 

 English ; Pic epeichette, French ; Picchio piccolo, Italian ; Picamadera, Spanish (Lilford) ; 

 Picapoa, Azores (Godman); kleiner Buntspecht, German; mindste Flagspet, Danish; 

 liden Plagspet, Norwegian ; lilla Hackspetten, Swedish ; Pienempi Tikka, Finnish ; 

 Tsitsach tschaitne, Lapp (Wheelwright); Byatell malyi, Russian; Brieciolek, Polish. 



Figurce notabiles. 



Buff. PI. Enl. vii. pi. 598 ; Werner, Atlas, Zygodactyles, pi. 206 ; Naum. Vog. Deutschl. v. 

 pi. 136; Gould, B. of Eur. iii. pi. 231; Yarr. Brit. B. ii. p. 147; Kjasrb. Orn. Dan. pi. x. 

 fig. 1 ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 49 ; Malh. Monogr. Picid. iii. pi. xxvi. figs. 4-7 ; Reich. 

 Handb. Pic. t. dcxxxvi. figs. 4234, 4235 ; Gould, B. Gr. Br. pt. iii. ; Bettoni, Ucc. Lomb. 

 tav. 78 ; Sundev. Sv. Fogl. pi. 



<3 ad. frcmte lactescenti-alba : vertice lsete rniniato, utrinque nigro linealiter marginato : pileo postico et inter- 

 scapulio nigris : facie laterali lactescenti-alba, regione parotica vix brunnescente tincta : genis fusces- 

 centi-nigris postice productis et dilatatis, ad latera colli plagam nigram triquetram formantibus : colli 

 lateribus albis : scapularibus imis ct dorso medio toto albis nigro transversim fasciatis : uropygio et 

 supracaudalibus nigris : tectricibus alarum brunnescenti-nigris, majoribus albo macula tis, et fascias 

 irregulares formantibus : remigibus nigricantibus utroque pogonio albo maculatis, secundariis dorsalibus 

 albo transfasciatis : cauda nigra, rectricibus tribus externis fere albis nigro maculatis et transfasciatis, 

 tertia basin versus oblique nigra : subtiis albescens, pectore laterali anguste nigro lineato, hypochondriis 

 subcaudabbusque brunnescenti-nigro obsolete maculatis, corporis lateribus paullo brunnescentibus : 

 subalaribus albis, externis nigricantibus : rostro et pedibus saturate plumbeis : iride rubra. 



