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ORDER XV. PICI. 
PICIDAE (Woodpeckers). 
The Woodpeckers are most important friends of the forest. 
They live largely upon the larvae of boring beetles and Lipidoptera. 
Their adaptations of tongue, tail, and feet are evidences that these 
insects are their natural food. Some of the Woodpeckers are 
wholly beneficial, since they feed almost entirely upon these injurious 
larvae. The so-called Sapsuckers vary their diet of insect larvae 
with the cambium and sap of trees and may do considerable damage. 
The Red-headed Woodpecker is particularly fond of fruit, beech 
nuts, and grain, as well as grasshoppers, etc. The Flicker, like 
most Woodpeckers, eats large numbers of ants. He also feeds upon 
chinch bugs, grasshoppers, crickets, and cock roaches. He inhabits 
the open country and is found frequently upon the ground. “With 
the single exception of the Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, all our Wood- 
peckers appear to be extremely beneficial.” 
REFERENCES: 
1. “Food of the Woodpeckers of the United States,’ F. E. 
L. Beal, Biological Survey Bulletin No. 37. 
2. “Birds in Their Relation to Man,’ Weed and Dearborn, pp. 
181-191. 
3. Farmers’ Bulletin No. 506, pp. 5-14. 
393d. Dryobates villosus hyloscopus: Cabanis’s Woodpecker. 
“Resident; not common. In all probability a portion of the 
records referred to the Harris’s Woodpecker belong to this 
variety. But few collectors have noted them, and as a rule 
have referred it to some other form. Thus far the Wyo- 
ming records have been made by the National Museum 
only, which are as follows: Nos. 38270 and 38272, taken 
at Laramie Peak by Exp. Expd. West of the Missouri River; 
No. 10789, taken at Fort Bridger by South Pass Wagor 
Koad Expd.”  (Knight.) 
393e. Dryobates villosus monticola: Rocky Mountain Hairy Wood- 
pecker. 
Fairly common summer resident over most of the wooded 
regions of the state. 
