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and June; "often takes three weeks to peck the hole for nest, which is often 

 found in sound ash trees" (Dr. W. C. Brownell); eggs tive to seven, white; "the 

 Sapsucker" (Butler's Birds of Indiana); "taps trees more than either the Hairy 

 or Downy Woodpecker according to my observation " (S. E. White); Mr. White 

 reports it as a rare migrant at Mackinac Island; "this is surely the Sapsucker 



Yellow bellied 'SVoodpecker, natural size. 



par excellence at Grand Rapids" (E. L. Moseley); "I know it is a Sapsucker as 

 I have seen it at work" (E. B. Boies); "this is the Sapsucker, not only of 

 Indiana, but everywhere" (A. W. Butler); the old ornithologists always refer to 

 the Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers as the Sapsuckers, and I and others believe 

 that we have seen them sucking the sap from evergreens here on the college 

 ■campus. The evidenae seems overwhelming that this species is the one that 

 makes the regular holes in pine, orchard, and especially maple trees, thus tapping 

 them and coming again for the sap. (See Auk., Vol. 8, p. 256). Mr. E. E. Brew- 

 ster writes that this is common at Iron Mountain, where he has shot it as it 

 was taking maple sap. He says that the feathers were all sticky from the sugar 

 on them. 



Genus CEOPHLCEDS Cab. 



Pileated Woodpecker, natural size. 



18 4-405 -(4 3 2)'. CoephlaMis pileatiis Linn. * Pileated Woodpecker; Black 

 Woodpecker; Log Cook; Woodcock (Michigan and Indiana). 



Once, common throughout the state; found at all seasons; now very rare; one 

 seen near college in summer of 1892; "extinct at Ann Arbor" (J. B. Steere); 



