of each feather, and rounded patches ofjvhite on the inner
web, the two middle tail-feathers the longest, and wholly
black, pointed, and somewhat worn at the .ends; the two next
in succession, on each side, also, black, tipped with white: at
the end, and similarly pointed; .»the next black and white,
with some black forming bars on the. white ; the'outer feathef
on each side with the ends rounded and entire. • The throat,
neck, breast, and" belly*, dirty white; vent' and under tail-
coverts red.
The whole length .of an adult bird nine-inches and a hadf.
From the carpal joint to the end Of the wing inches "and
a quarter; the; first feather very short; the: second shorter
than the seventh, but longer; than the eighth; the /third,
fourfh, and fifth, as long as thef,Sevenththe sixth feather the
longest in the wing.
The adult female has no red colour on the head or ©ccfiput.
The young birds rjf the -year, of ..both.; sexes,,/are a little
smaller in size, and though not-differing in. plumage from the
parent birds in other respects, they- have the top- of the head
red, the occiput black, and these colours they retain Jill their
first moult, which probably from the observation' ■ of jMt-
Selby, is not'completed tilMate in the year; Thia red colour
covers the whole of .the topWf the head, biit is notiSp. bright
in tint as the occipital patch of the old male,„atidis sometimes
mixed with a few black feathers. In this-ltate of
plumage this young bird has. been -confounded with, and
quoted as the Picus medius. of Linnaeus, a black and, white
Woodpecker of the Continent of Europe, which there as no
reason to believe has ever been killed in this eountry..
lNSESSORES. j PIC1D/E.
“ SCANSORES.
T H E LESSER S POTTED WOODPECKER.
THE BARRED WOODPECKER, AND HICKWALL.
Wmis minor, Least Spotted Woodpecker, P enn. "Brit. Zool.’ vól.
Lesser ,, WÊiï&i ,, I Mont. Qrnith; :Dict.
322.
The Batrèd,
Lesser Spotted
Pic épeickette,
B ewick, Brit, Birds, vol. i. p. 144.
F lem. Brit. An. p, 90.
Se i.by,: Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 379.
JtENYNS, Brit: "Vert, p. ^
GoTjx.Dv>,Birds- of Europe, pt, xii,
P emm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p, 399.
T h e L esser S potted W oodpecker, Little Black-and-
White Y f opdpecke^ and Barred Woodpecker, as it is also
sometimes called,/las the characters and actions, , as well as
the colours of the Black-and-White Woodpecker, last described,
while its small size, and its retiring habits; enable it
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