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GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER— FLICKER HIGH-HOLEE. 



Adult male. Top of head asliy gray, a bright scarlet band across back of the 

 neck; back, wing coverts and innermost quills brownish gray, thickly barred with 

 black; tail coverts white, barred with black; primaries black externally, inner sur- 

 face of wing and shafts of the feathers bright yellow; tail black above, below 

 yellow, tipped with black; sides, of the head throat and upper breast vinaceous; a 

 broad black stripe on either side of the throat from the base of the bill and a broad 

 black crescent across the breast; rest of the under parts white, more or less tinged 

 with vinaceous and thickly spotted with black. 



Adult female. Similar, but without the black streaks on the side of the 

 throat. 



L., 11.00; W., 6.00; T., 4.00. 



Nest, in a hole in a stub or tree. Eggs, five to nine white. 



EED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 



Adult male and female. Head, neck and upper breast deep crimson; back, 

 primaries, bases of the secondaries and wing coverts glossy blue black; end of 

 secondaries, rump and upper tail coverts white ; tail black, the feathers more or less 

 margined with white; lower breast and belly white, generally tinged with reddish. 



Immature. Head, neck and upper breast grayish brown; upper back bluish 

 black barred with ashy; primaries and wing coverts black; end half of secondaries 

 irregularly 'barred with black; tail black generally tipped with white; lower breast 

 and belly white, more or less streaked or spotted with gray. 



L., 9.25; W., 5.50; T., 3.25. 



Nest, in a hole in a tree. Eggs, four to six, white. 



RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. Whole top of the head and back of the neck bright scarlet; back 

 regularly barred with black and white ; primaries black at the end, white irregularly 

 barred with black at the base; secondaries black, regularly spotted and barred with 

 white; upper tail coverts white, with streaks or arrowheads of black; outer tail 

 feathers and inner vanes of the middle ones irregularly marked with broken black 

 and white bars; cheeks and under parts dull ashy white, the region about the base 

 of the bill, the middle of the belly and sometimes the breast more or less tinged 

 with red. 



Adult female. Similar but with the crown grayish ashy, the scarlet confined 

 to the nape and nostrils. 



ImmMure. Similar, but with the belly sometimes tinged with buify instead 

 of red. 



L., 9.50; W., 5.00; T., 3.50. 



Nest, in a hole in a tree. Eggs, four to six, white 



NUTHATCHES, CHICKADEES, AND TREE CREEPER. 



Of these we have two species of Nuthatches — the White-breasted and 

 Red-breasted, — two Chickadees and one Creeper. They are all resident 

 species, though more frequently seen around cultivated lands in the winter 



