276 [STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



180-394-(-Jr-l:0). Dryobates pubescens Linn. "■♦= Downy Woodpecker. 



Very common; throughout the state; abundant at all seasons; "Grand Traverse 

 Co."' (M. L. Leach); " Mackinac Island, where they are the first Woodpeckers to 

 arrive late in July" (S. E. White); "common at Albion and St. Joseph, but rare at 

 Palmer, Marquette Co." (O. B. Warren); ''common at Iron Mountain" (E. E. Brew- 

 ster); "'Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); nests in June, more abundantly north; hole 

 for nest very smooth, almost polished; eggs four to six, small, clear white. I find, 

 almost always, in the winter and spring, the grub of the large headed borer of the 

 Buprestid beetle. Chrysohothrys femorata, in the stomach of this species. This 

 bird feeds largely on the larvae and pupae of the coddling moth and our numerous 

 leaf rollers. This and the preceding species are much the same, except for size. 



Genus PICOIDRS Lacep. 



181— tOO-(-l:4:3). Picoides arcticiis {Swains.). Arctic Three-toed Woodpeckek; 

 Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker. 



Very rare south; abundant near Higgins Lake and north; "not seen at Ann 

 Arbor" (Dr. J. B. Steere); "have seen twenty in one trip through the woods at 

 Howard City and Cadillac" (Dr. M. Gibbs); "found common in pineries by N. A. 

 Eddy and taken at Bay City" (O. and O., Vol. VII, p. 14:.3); I have no account of 

 it south of Ionia Co.; '"taken not uncommonly in Grand Traverse and Roscommon 

 Counties" (J. C. Nichols); "it is not rare at Palmer where it breeds, its call is fre- 

 quently heard, and is very harsh and disagreeable" (O. B. Warren); '"occasionally 

 seen in the pine woods fourteen miles west of Port Sanilac. Sanilac Co." (W. A. 

 Oldfield); "common in the Gogebic region" (H. Nehrling); embraced in Cabot's 

 Birds of Lake Superior; "not rare on Upper Peninsula" (A. N. Wood in O. and C, 

 Vol. IX. 1884, p. 62); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); "'common in North Michigan 

 pineries" (Prof. Ludwig Kumlein); "common in Iron Co." S. E. White); "not rare 

 in Grand Traverse Co." (M. L. Leach); common on Sagin.,»v Bay (N. A. Eddy in O. 

 and O.. Vol. IX. p. 5); one in collection of Dr. E. S. Holmes, Grand Rapids, was 

 taken in Kent Co.. and one in the tine collection of Levi Broas, Belding, was taken 

 n Ionia Co. Without doubt this bird breeds in the northern part of this state; 

 "I know of one instance of its breeding in Roscommon Co." (Dr. W. C. Brownell); 

 Mr. E. E. Brewster writes me that this bird is common in winter at Iron Mountain, 

 but he cannot say that it 'breeds. 



182-4r01-(4-l:4). Picoides americaaiis Brehm. American Three-toed Woodpecker; 

 Banded-backed Three-toed Woodpecker. 



Exceedingly raie; "not rare in Northern Peninsula and Gogebic region" (H. 

 Nehrling); in Cabot's list of Birds of Lake Superior; '"Keweenaw Point" (Knee- 

 land); inserted in Gibbs' ""Birds of Michigan" on the authority of A. B. Covert; "I 

 know of no record for the state" (Dr. A. K. Fisher). 



Genus SPHYRAPICUS Baied. 



183-402-(44:6). Spliyrapiciis variiis (Linn.). * Yellow-bellied Sapsucker; 

 Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. 



Quite abundant in the spring; occasional in summer; found all months from 

 April to October; rarely seen as late as December; very common at Albion, and at 

 St. Joseph in spring, during the maple sugar season (O. B. Warren); breeds in May 



