THE PIED WOODPECKERS. 
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white, _ the ear-coverts light brown ; a black moustachial 
’’inning up behind the ear-coverts, and widening on 
9^ the neck; under surface of body brownish-white, 
of on the throat ; sides of body with narrow streaks 
9' black, ■’ - - - - 
the 
iris*^rpnrT spots; “ bill, legs, _and feet dark slate-grey; 
the streaks taking the fonn of arrow-head spots 
on 
bnder tail-coverts ; under whng-coverts and axillaries white. 
cy] "^^tidish-brown ” (771 Seebohm). Total length, 5'8 inches; 
ten, 075; wing, 3'6; tail, 2*4; tarsus, o'6. 
the — Similar to the male, but without any red on 
the forehead and fore-part of the latter being 
^y-white. Total length, 5'8 inches ; wing, 3'6. 
bro^''**^‘r~^'*ttilar to the adults, but more dingy and sooty- 
bnlv .1 > no browm colour on the base of the forehead ; 
whitp ® centre of the crown crimson, the feathers being dingy- 
le at the base. 
th^ Britain.— Inhabits nearly the same districts as 
South Woodpecker, and is in many parts of the 
Woodn niost plentiful of the three species of 
thesa^^ 'ndigenous to this country. Lord Lilford says 
coines ^ " ’''*' regard to Northamptonshire. Northwards it be- 
'ocal and not plentiful in Yorkshire. In 
boted of the Thames Valley it is frequently to be 
®cen a •*’ *** ^ London district, for I have 
freque^n"'^®” killed in Kensington Gardens, and the species 
’■tees ill ^ near Chiswick. It visits some elm- 
bny winte^ garden, and can be seen and heard on almost 
Club.” ^ afternoon in the grounds of the “ Chiswick Golf 
^as only T^bd and Ireland the Lesser Spotted AVoodpeckei 
^‘''cn to noted, but Mr. Robert Service has 
bccasion„ ktoward Saunders notice of its capture on three 
’b the Solway district. 
pberally°'^?*^® . British Islands. — The present species is 
frequen? .’^'“'■•’cd throughout Europe, but is decidedly 
^ tesidenf u ®°bth, though it is found in Algeria and 
70° j ^b the Azores. In Scandinavia it breeds as far 
•^'^changei Russia it is to be found as far north as 
to about 67“ N. lat. on the Petchora and the 
