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of the state, as there are several records of specimens taken during 

 summer months. We have seen it at Merrill and near Wausau in 

 June, and near Oconto (several specimens) in early August." 



Mr. John F. Ferry procured three adult birds and three young 

 not long out of the nest, near Woodruff, Vilas County, Wisconsin, dur- 

 ing the last week in, June; 1908. 



192. Picoides americanus BREHM. 

 AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER. 



Distr.: Northern North America east of the Rocky Mountains, 

 from the northern border of the United States to the Arctic regions; 

 accidental as far south as Massachusetts and New York., 



Adult male: Toes, three; upper plumage, black, a patch of yellow 

 on the crown; back, banded with white; under parts, white; the sides, 



American Three-toed Woodpecker. 



banded with black; primaries, spotted with white, middle tail 

 feathers, black, outer ones, marked with black at the bases, but the 

 the tips, broadly white. 



Adult female: Similar, but no yellow on the head; crown, black, 

 finely spotted with white. 



Length, 8 to 9; wing, 4.50 to 5; tail, 3.30; bill, .95. 



Not recorded from Illinois, and apparently a rare winter visitant 

 in Wisconsin. Kumlien and Hollister state (Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, 

 p. 75): "Records of this woodpecker for Wisconsin are very few. 

 From 1860 to 1870 several specimens, about a dozen all told, were 

 taken by Thure and L. Kumlien in the large tamarack wood near 

 Jefferson. Dr. H. V. Ogden and Dr. E. Copeland have taken two 

 specimens in Iron County, a male and a female, taken respectively 

 Sept. 30 and Sept. 25, 1898, and preserved in the collection of E. 

 Copeland and H. Russel at Milwaukee; and it has been reported from 

 the upper peninsula of Michigan by Mr. H. Nehrling." 



