118 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PICI. 



PICIDAE. 



Mass. — Common resident, most conspicuous in fall and winter. 

 Eggs, May 20- June 21. 



R. I. — Uncommon summer and common winter resident. Eggs, 

 May 12-25. 



Conn. — Common resident. 



224. Picoides arcticus (Swainson) Gray. 



Arctic three-toed woodpecker; Black-backed three-toed wood- 

 pecker. 



Picus (Apternus) arcticus Swains., in Swains, and Richardson, 

 Fauna Boreali-Amer., 1831, vol. 2, p. 313, pi. 57. "near the 

 sources of the Athabasca River, lat. 57°." Egg, Capen, 

 1886, pi. 14, fig. 11. 



Evergreen forests; nests in holes excavated in dead trees. 



Me. — Uncommon winter visitor, and in northern and western 

 counties, rare resident. Eggs, May 23. 



N. H— Rare resident above 3000 ft. in White Mts., south to Mt. 

 Passaconaway and possibly on Mt. Monadnock (Keene, breeding), 

 elsewhere rare visitor. 

 , Vt. — Rare resident in northern part and on higher peaks 

 (nests at Burlington, Lunenburg, Sherburne, Pico Peak, etc.); 

 occasional visitor to lower country in fall and winter. Eggs, 

 May 29, June 1. 



Mass. — Occasional fall and winter visitor. (Late Sept.) 

 Oct. 16-April 27 (July, 1888, Boxford; Aug. 11, 1S83, Dorchester). 



Conn. — Rare winter visitor: East Windsor Hill; Simsbury, 

 18G0. 



225. Picoides americanus Brehm. 



American three-toed woodpecker; Banded-backed woodpecker; 

 Ladder-backed woodpecker. 



Picoides americana Brehm, Handb. d. naturgesch. aller vogel 

 Deutschl., 1831, p. 195. "Amerika." 



