Locality. 
Food. 
General 
descrip- 
tion. 
108 ZYGODACTYLI. PICUS. Wooprrckxer. 
Pic Epeichette, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 399. 
Grass-pecht, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 2. p. 1039.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 
v. 1. p. 124.—Frisch, Vog. t. 37. male and female. 
Lesser-spotted Woodpecker, Br. Zool. 1. No. 87. t. 37.—Arct. Zool. 2. 
p- 278. E.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, t. 49.—Lath. Syn. 2. p. 566. 14.—Id. 
Sup. p. 107.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Id. Sup.— Wale. Syn. 1. t. 50.—Pult. 
Cat. Dorset. p. 6.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, v. 1. p. 120.—Don, Br. Birds, 2. 
t. 36.—Shaw’s Zool. v. 9. p. 166. t. 34. bad figure of male. 
Provincial, Hickwall, Crank Bird. 
This small species of Woodpecker is less numerous than 
the others, and seems to be only partially distributed. I 
have met with it in Herefordshire, and it is well known in 
the neighbouring counties of Gloucester and Wilts. In the 
northern and eastern parts of England it is very rare; and, 
although said by Temmrncx to resort particularly to fo- 
rests of fir-trees, I have not been able to trace it in those dis- 
tricts of Scotland where woods of that description abound.— 
In habits it resembles its congeners, obtaining its food in the 
same manner, which consists of the smaller insects. Its note 
is also similar, but not so loud. It breeds either in the natu- 
ral hole of some tree, or in-one of its own excavation, the 
orifice of which is always correspondent with the small size of 
the bird, and the passage is often of some depth. The eggs 
are laid on the rotten wood, without any fabricated nest ; 
they are of a clear pmkish-white, and amount to five or 
six. 
PiateE 38. Fig. 3. Represents a male bird, in the natural 
sIZe. 
Forehead greyish-white. Crown of the head aurora-red. 
Streak over the eye, occiput, and nape of the neck 
black. Cheeks and sides of the neck white. From the 
corners of the lower mandible a black streak proceeds 
downwards towards the shoulder. Upper part of the 
back and lesser wing-coverts glossy black. Middle re- 
gion of the back and scapulars white, barred with black. 
Quills black, spotted with white. Rump and the four 
middle tail-feathers black ; upon the rest, the black de- 
