2 T.KSSF.l! SPOTTED WOODPECKER.
b&d roared their young in an adjoining tree, the two limbs bciug within a few feet of one another. When
examined side by side, it was easy to distinguish tho difference in the sine of the holes cut by the two
species, the entrance to tho nursery of Pints minor being about half an inch smaller in diameter than that
required by his larger relative.
The note of the male is a low whistle, repeated two or three times La succession.
I was assured by a gardener in the interior of Sussex that this species was destructive to peas, lie
showed me two or three he had shot while protecting these vegetables from the attacks of llawtinehcs and
Sparrows. There was not tho slightest doubt as to the identity of the birds, and I fully believe they were
killed where the man described (I have repeatedly seen a pair or two frequenting the garden); but that the
peas were the object of their visit I can scarcely credit.
