•354 LESSER-SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
and Warwickshire, and one was killed near 
Newcastle in January, 1829, which is perhaps 
the northern range of the bird in our country. 
It has been remarked in the districts it frequents, 
even more than the larger species, on account of 
its peculiar note, continued for a time together, 
and which is most probably a call-note during the 
breeding season, though we are not aware that it 
is confined to this period only. Mr Bree says, 
“ It resembles that made by the boring of a large 
auger through the hardest wood, and hence the 
country people sometimes call the bird ‘ Pump 
Borer.’ ’’ The Lesser-spotted Woodpecker breeds 
like the last in hollow trees, laying the eggs, it is 
said, on the bare or rotten wood, and having the 
entrance hole always of a size in proportion to 
that of the bird. On the Continent Temminck 
considers it as most abundant in the north, 
frequenting the pine forests, becoming more 
uncommon in the south, and very rarely occur- 
ring in Holland. 
In the male the forehead is grayish white, 
crown arterial red, running into black on the 
occiput, which is continued down the centre of 
the nape, and forms a broad band of the same 
colour upon the shoulders ; the cheeks, and a 
patch on each side the neck white, bordered 
beneath the auriculars with black; the upper 
parts and wings are banded alternately with black 
and white, the latter predominating on the centre 
of the back ; the rump and middle tail feathers 
black, the outer feather white, with black bars, 
