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for capital punishment; and the Kingfisher is such a tempting 

 mark for the tiro who longs to become an expert wing-shot. On 

 the rapidly flowing Ozark streams, especially those flowing 

 southward, the Kingfisher is almost entitled to the rank of 

 permanent resident; farther north a few linger through fore- 

 winter until real cold weather sets in; others return with the 

 first thaw, as February 25, 1884, St. Louis; February 26, 1905, 

 Warrensburg; but real spring movement does not begin before 

 from March 10 to 15, and in cold springs a week or two later. 

 Full numbers are not present before the middle of April. Their 

 departure in the fall is equally irregular; some desert their 

 haunts early in October, while others do not think of leaving be- 

 fore the first cold snap comes in the latter part of November. 



. Order PICI. Woodpeckers, etc. 



Family Picidae. Woodpeckers. 



392. Campephilus principals (Linn.). Ivory-billed Wood- 

 pecker. 



Picus principalis. White-billed Woodpecker. 



Geog. Dist. — Formerly South Atlantic and Gulf States north 

 to North Carolina and Maryland; west to Eastern Texas, and 

 in the Mississippi Valley to southern Indiana, Illinois and Mis- 

 souri. Florida and Louisiana are the only states in which the 

 species has been found within the last ten years. 



The last record of its capture in Missouri is November, 1895, 

 when Captain Gillespie of the St. Louis police force brought one 

 home from Stoddard Co., and had it mounted by Mr. Frank 

 Schwarz. It was a male and was killed near the Little River 

 on November 8 by a local hunter, named Spradlin, eight miles 

 southwest of Morley, Scott Co. 



*393. Dryobates villosus (Linn.). Hairy Woodpecker. 



Piciis villosus. 



Geog. Dist. — Of the seven subspecies inhabiting North Amer- 

 ica, this is the one which claims the northern and middle portion 

 of the eastern United States as its domain and is found from 

 the Atlantic coast to the Plains, from North Carolina to Nova 

 Scotia and west to Kansas and Nebraska. Non-migratory, ex- 

 cept partly in its most northern home. 



