94 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Spring migration. Earliest record. New Haven, April 2, 

 1888 ; Portland, April 9, 1875. Latest record. New Haven, April 

 2.'j, 1900; Portland, April 23, 1902. 



Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, Sept. 28, 1898, 

 Sept. 16, 1887 (H. W. F.) ; Portland, Sept. 17, 1894. Latest 

 record. New Haven, Dec. 2, 1882; Portland, Oct. 25, 1896. 



Winter records. Dec. 17, 1881, New Haven, young female 

 taken (L. B. B.) ; Feb. 10, 1899, New Haven, one taken (Osborne 

 and Austin). 



Summer records. May 10, 1887, Portland (J. H. S.) ; May 

 6, 1893, Fairfield (Fames, in coll. of Beers). 



Breeding record. H. K. J. reports^ that Mr. Williams has 

 in his possession two sets of eggs found in two nests in Winsted 

 about 1893. 



Phlceotomus pileatus abieticola (Bangs). Northern Pileated 

 Woodpecker. 



A rare winter and spring visitant; very rarely breeding. 



Connecticut records. Linsley reported it from Stratford and 

 New Haven f W. W. C. noted one killed in Portland in Novem- 

 ber, 1876;^ King took one at Suffield " several years ago " (prior 

 to 1877) f spring, 1879, Stamford, two seen and plainly identified 

 (Hoyt) ; Nov. i, 1890, Granby, one taken by Welch (J. H. S.) f 

 May 10, 1894, Neversink Swamp, Danbury, one seen (Hamlin) ; 

 winter, 1894-5, Granby, one seen (Welch) ; Dec, 1900, Cornwall, 

 one seen;* June 13, 1903, New Hartford, one shot by Sweetland 

 (in coll. of J. H. S.). 



Breeding records. May 30, 1901, Torrington, nest with one 

 young found 20 feet from the ground in a pine tree in a very 

 large cavity (Hanson) f Mr. Williams found nests of this species 

 a dozen years ago (1896) in the vicinity of Litchfield.^ 



Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus). Red-headed 

 Woodpecker. 



A rare fall migrant; a very rare spring migrant and summer 

 resident; an irregular winter resident; formerly an abundant 

 resident. 



•H. K. Job, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 299. 



"Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 64. 



^Auk, X, 4, p. 371. 



*Auk, xviii, 2, p. 193. 



eH. K. Job. The Sport of Bird Study, p. 300. 



