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hearty repast on holly and smilax berries. Like the 



preceding, the Log-cock frequently digs out a cavity 



in some tree, as a deposit for his eggs and brood. The 



eggs are about 6, of a snowy whiteness ; and they are 



said to raise two broods in the season. 



The Pileated Woodpecker is about 18 inches in length, and 28 in 

 alar extent. The crest and mustachios bright scarlet, inclining to 

 crimson. Chin, stripe from the nostrils passing down the side of the 

 neck to the sides and extending under the wings, white ; the upper 

 half of the wings white, but concealed by the black coverts ; lower 

 extremities of the wings, and the rest of the body brownish-black. 

 Legs lead color. Bill fluted, bluish-black above, below, and at point 

 bluish-white. Iris golden. 



RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 



(Picus erijthroccphalus, L. Wilson, 1. p. 142. pi. 9. fig. 1. Audubon, 

 pi. 27. Orn. 1. p. 141. [The male and female feeding their half 

 fledged young.] Phil. Museum, No. 1922.} 



Sp. Charact. — Head, neck, and throat, crimson ; the back, wings, 

 and tail, black, with bluish reflections ; secondaries, rump, lower 

 part of the back, and under parts of the body, white. — Female 

 less brightly colored. — The Young with the head and neck dull 

 grey, varied with blackish. 



The geographic limits of this common and well known 

 species are coextensive with the preceding. It is met 

 with, in short, from the sources of the Mississippi, in 

 latitude 50°, to the Gulph of Mexico, was observed 

 by Mr. Say in the region of the Rocky Mountains, 

 and by Lewis and Clarke in the forests near the Pacific. 

 In all the intermediate country, however extensive, it 

 probably resides and breeds. At the approach of winter, 

 or about the middle of October, they migrate from the 

 north and west, and consequently appear very numerous 

 in the Southern States at that season. Many of them also 

 probably pass into the adjoining provinces of Mexico, 

 and they reappear in Pennsylvania, (according to Wil- 



