AYES. 117 



PICT. 



PICTDAE. 



222. Dryobates villosus (Linn£) Cabanis. 



Hairy woodpecker; Big guinea woodpecker; Big sapsucker. 



Picus villosus Linne, Syst. nat., cd. 12, 170(3, vol. 1, p. 17."). 

 "in America septextrioxali." Audubon, Birds of Ami i.. 

 is 12. vol. 4, p. 244, pi. 262. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 4, fig. 9. 



Forests; nests in holes dug in dead or live trees. 



Me. — Common resident. Eggs, May 28. 



X. H. — Common resident up to 4500 ft. 



Vt. — Uncommon resident. Eggs, June 8. 



Mass. — Uncommon winter visitor and less common summer 

 resident, especially in western part. Eggs, April 22— May 30. 



R. I. — Uncommon fall and winter visitor and rare summer 

 resident (Chepachet, Cranston). Sept. l.-Mar.j summer. Eggs, 

 May 12-28. 



Coxx. — Uncommon fall and winter visitor, rare summer resident. 

 Eggs, May 2-9. 



223. Dryobates pubescexs mediaxus (Swainson) Brewster. 



Downy woodpecker; Little guinea woodpecker; Little sap- 

 sucker. 



Picus iDnidrocopus) modi amis Swains., in Swains, and Richard- 

 son, Fauna Boreali-Amer., 1831, vol. 2, p. 308. "middle parts 

 of North America. . . .New Jersey." 



Dryobates pubescens (Linne). Chapman, Handb. birds east. 

 Xo. Amer., 1895, p. 230; Bird-life, 1898, pi. 24. Egg, Capen, 

 1886, pi. 14. fig. 10. 



Open woods, shade and orchard trees; nests in holes excavated 

 in dead trees. 



Me. — Common resident. Eggs, May 27. 



N. H. — Common resident, mainly below 3000 ft. 



Vt. — Common resident. 



