LESSER SPOTTED 'WOODPECKER.
DELOR FKAITH L E IAF, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
LEAST SPOTTED WOODPECKER. LITTLE BLACK AND
WHITE WOODPECKER. BARRED WOODPECKER. LITTLE FRENCH
WOODPECKER. HICK WALL. PUMP-BORER. CRANK-BIRD.
Pints minor, LINNAEUS. PENNANT.
Pints varius minor, BRISSON.
Pints varius fortius, RAY.
Pints—A bird that makes holes in trees, supposed to be the Woodpecker.
Minor—Less—lesser.
THIS species is found in Europe—in Prance, Italy, Scandinavia,
Siberia, and Holland; in which latter it is rare.
In Yorkshire one of these birds was shot by Peter Inelibald, Esq.,
of Storthes Hall, near Huddersfield, in the winter of 18-48; and this
gentleman writes me word that a nest of the same species, containing
five eggs, was found in that neighbourhood on the 31st. of May,
1851; another nest, with several in it, was taken some years since in
the woods of V\ entworth House, the seat of Lord Fitzwilliam. The bird
has also been met with near Sheffield, Hebden-Bridge, and Thirkleby,
near Thirst, also in Stainborough Park, Lund wood, Ethersley wood,
and Ts orroyds, near Barnsley, likewise near 1 [elmsley Blackamoor,
two or three pairs every summer build about there. In Worcestershire
I have known it to occur, as has also W. F. W. Bird, Esq.
In Norfolk it breeds, but is rare: one was shot at Bkckling, in April,
Is 17. Jn Suffolk, one was shot at Haughleigh, near Stowmarket, in
1847. In Sussex a pair bred at Peasmarsh, in the beginning of
June, 1849, in a plum tree, only a few yards from a house; a male
was shot in 1844, at Arundel; another at Albourne, in December, in
1848; and one was captured at Parham House, having flown in