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most prominent. The lower parts are yellowish 
white, having the black of the sides of the neck 
stretching across the breast in the form of a cres- 
cent shaped half collar, the vent and under tail 
coverts crimson red. The quills with spots 
of a square shape on the outer webs, on the inner 
ones rounded, those on the first quill being 
placed near the base, and only two in number. 
Tail black, the two outer feathers yellowish white 
for two-thirds of their length, barred with black, 
the third feather tipped with yellowish white. 
In the female, the red occipital band is wanting. 
In the young birds, the crown of the head is 
entirely crimson previous to the first moult. 
Lesser-spotted Woodpecker, Dendroco- 
pus minor. — Picus minor, Limu—Dendrocopus 
minor, Swain. — Lesser-spotled Woodpecker of 
British authors . — This pretty little species is 
more local than the last, and has a much less 
extended range in Britain, being unknown, we 
believe, in the Scotish and Irish fauna, and being 
found chiefly in a few of the southern and western 
counties of England. According to Mr Gould 
it is very common in the parks and woods 
around London, being always to be found in 
Kensington gardens, &c. where it seems partial 
to the elm trees, keeping, in great part, to the 
topmost branches ; and is also recorded as being 
met with in Gloucester, Wilts, Hereford, Cam- 
bridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, Shropshire, Derbyshire, 
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