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PICTJS MINOR. 
LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
Variegated with white and black; crown 
red, vent testaceous. 
Pieus Minor, Lin. Grae. 
La Petite Epeiche, Ruffon. 
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Lath. Rew. 
Don. Mont. 
Lest Spotted Woodpecker, Pennant. 
PROVINCIAL, 
HICKWALL, CRANK-BIRD. 
This species measures about six inches 
in length, and the alar extent eleven 
inches. Its weight, according to Montagu, 
is not quite five drams; other authors say 
nearly an ounce. 
The crown of the head, which in the 
male is red, is in the female white. She 
lays five white eggs, deposited as in the 
other species, on the rotten wood, without 
ajiy nest — the young birds resemble their 
parents. 
