. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . onof the Duchess of Portland (Latham, Gen. Syn. H,. p. 578). At Whitby, one was killed early in 1849 (Wiggins, , p. 2496 ; Bird, torn. cit. 2527 ; Newman, op. cit. 1851,p. 2985 ; Bird, torn. cit. p. 3034). This specimen is in theSouth Kensington Museum.] LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. Dendrocopus minor (L.). Resident, extremely local and confined to thickly wooded which it occurs in limited numbers. Probably the earliest reference to this bird in Yorkshireis in Leylands Halifax Catalogue,
. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . onof the Duchess of Portland (Latham, Gen. Syn. H,. p. 578). At Whitby, one was killed early in 1849 (Wiggins, , p. 2496 ; Bird, torn. cit. 2527 ; Newman, op. cit. 1851,p. 2985 ; Bird, torn. cit. p. 3034). This specimen is in theSouth Kensington Museum.] LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. Dendrocopus minor (L.). Resident, extremely local and confined to thickly wooded which it occurs in limited numbers. Probably the earliest reference to this bird in Yorkshireis in Leylands Halifax Catalogue, 1828, where it is describedas very rare. Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote :— Picus minor.—Lesser Spotted Woodpecker—Met with near Don-caster ; a few specimens have been obtained near Sheffield ; it israrely seen at Hebden Bridge ; a nest was taken, with several young,a few years ago by a son of Joseph Cooper, Botanical Gardener to EarlFitzwilliam, in the woods at Wentworth ; it is also met with in thewoods at Thirkleby near Thirsk. The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is rarer in Yorkshire. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker taking food to its young. r. A. MetrcilfeSee page 277. LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 277 then the preceding species, while its diminutive size addsto the difficulty of detecting it in its woodland haunts. Likeits larger relative it loves the seclusion of old timbered parks,and has been recorded as nesting in various parts of theWest Riding; at or near Wakefield, in 1858; Huddersfield,in 1851 ; Ackworth ; once in Batley Wood (which is now aLeeds recreation ground) ; and at Eccup near Leeds ; alsoin the lower Nidd Valley; in the Washburn Valley, nearFewston ; and at Studley. After the breeding season thebird is more widely distributed, and more frequently observed,the occurrences being too numerous for mention in detail,though it may be remarked that, in the Wilsden district,several examples have been noticed recently, and it mayprobably be nesting there. Other places from which
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