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Eange in Great Britain. — Has only occurred once, when a 
specimen was shot by the Rev. O. Pickard Cambridge, F.R.S., 
near his home at IBloxworth in Dorsetshire, in December, 
1836. Some doubt has been thrown on the authenticity of 
the specimen in Mr. Cambridge’s possession, and it has been 
hinted that the specimen might have been changed by the 
bird-stuffer who mounted it. I have written to the owner 
about the bird in question, and he tells me that he has not the 
slighte.st doubt that the specimen he still has in his house is 
the identical one which he shot. Sixty years ago, a Downy 
Woodpecker would have been worth much more money to a 
dealer than a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, and it would not 
have been worth while for anyone to have changed the one 
species for the other. D. pubesce 7 is has once been shot near 
Elbeuf in France. 
Range outside the British Islands. — A North American species, 
occurring as far as Alaska in the north-west, and Florida in 
the south. 
IV. THE LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. DENDROCOPUS 
MINOR. 
Ficus mmor, Linn. S. N. i. p. 176 (1766) ; Dresser, B. Fur. 
V. p. S3, pi. 282 (1872) ; Seebohm, Br. B. ii. p. 359 (1884) ; 
Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B. pt x. (1889). 
Ficus striolatus, Macg. Br. B. iii. p. 86 (1840). 
De 7 idrocopus 7 /ii 7 ior, Newton, ed. Yarr. Br. B. ii. p. 477 (1882); 
B. O. U. List Br. B. p. 78 (1883) ; Saunders, Man. Br. 
B. p. 267 (1889) ; Hargitt, Cat. Br. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 252 
(1890). 
Adult Male. — General colour black and white ; scapulars 
white, the lower ones white barred with black; lower back barred 
with black and white ; rump and upper tail-coverts black ; quills 
black, spotted on the outer web with white, and barred on the 
inner web ; four central tail-feathers black, the others for the 
most part white, barred with black, the outermost or “dwarf' 
feather black with a white tip; crorvn of head crimson, the 
feathers having dusky bases and concealed white spots ; sides 
of hinder crown, occiput, nape, and hind-neck black ; fore- 
head pale buff, brownish at base ; sides of face and sides of 
