LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER— GREEN 107 
WOODPECKER. 
is the more common, but the smaller bird is much the 
less conspicuous, and is probably more widely diffused over 
the cultivated districts in the county. 
This species has nested for some years in a dead tree 
trunk, in Munn's garden at Laverstoke, about five feet 
from the ground, and nine yards from the garden door of 
the house. They first nested in the garden in 1883, and 
nearly every year until 1903. 
The Rev. G. M. A. Hewett has given us a lively 
account, in his " Open Air Boy," of a pair that nested in 
his garden at Winchester. 
Genus — Gecinus. 
110. Geciniis virtdis. Green Woodpecker. 
Yaffingale. Yaffle. Woodnacker. 
"... I am woodman of the woods, 
And hear tke garnet-headed yaffingale 
Mock them . . 
Tennyson^ s Last Tournament.'^ 
A common resident in all parts of the county. Nu- 
merous in some of the larger woods and in private 
domains, and especially plentiful in the New Forest. 
In the Isle of Wight it is very rare, and Bury says^ it 
" is with us * rarissima avis' R. Loe has seen it once, and 
that is the only well-authenticated instance of its occur- 
rence that I have heard of." 
In April, 1865, Hadfield noted 2 that one had been 
occasionally observed of late near Luccombe. 
' " Zoologi.-^t." 1845. -"Zoologist." 1865. 
