
ORD. II. GENUS VII. WOODPECKER. 
SPE. VI. LEAST SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
Pl. 50. 
Picus minor. Lin. Syf. I. p. 176. 
Le petit pic varié. . Bri. Orn. IV. p. 41. 
This is the leaft of the Britith fpecies, being in length only five inches and 
half. The bill is lead coloured: eyes red: the upper parts of the body black, 
variegated with crofs bars of white: the quills, covert feathers of the wings, and 
fhoulders, marked in a fimilar manner : forehead dirty pale buff colour: crown 
of the head orange fcarlet, dafhed with white: round the back part of the crown, 
and underneath the eye, a bar of black: cheeks and fides of the neck white: 
the under parts of the body dirty white, with a few dafhes of black: the four 
middle tail feathers black, the others black and white: legs lead colour. In 
the female the top of the head is white. 
It is fufficiently plenty in the woods in various parts of England, but lefs fo 
than the larger fpotted fpecies. 
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