WESTERN BIRDS Woodpecker 



I found the little fellow flying, in a rather uncertain 

 way, from pole to pole, where he hopped around, and 

 took the food brought him by the old birds. It had two 

 or three white bars on the black outer tail feathers, and 

 a patch below the red crown was gray. 



It would seem that this late nesting of the California 

 Woodpeckers is not so unusual as we may have believed, 

 for on the nineteenth of October I found another pole, 

 two blocks farther down this busy thoroughfare, where 

 noisy young were being fed. One was leaning well out 

 of the nest. Nuts were being fed here, but once I saw 

 one bird fly down through the air nearly to the ground 

 and come back, a large, long-legged insect in its bill. 



GENUS ASYNDESMUS : LEWIS WOOD- 

 PECKER. 



Lewis Woodpecker: Asyndesmus lewisi. 

 FAMILY— WOODPECKERS. 



In the Lewis we have another western bird, one that 

 ranges from southern British Columbia and southern 

 Alberta to Arizona and New Mexico, and from the inner 

 coast ranges of California to the Black Hills, South 

 Dakota, and western Nebraska; in winter to southern 

 California, western Texas, and Mexico; casual in Kansas. 



They are handsome birds about eleven inches long and 

 so different in plumage as to be unmistakable. The 

 upper parts are an iridescent green-black, save for a gray 

 collar which extends down on the breast. A patch of 

 rich crimson surrounds the bill and eyes, and the lower 

 breast and belly are resplendent in pink, or carmine 

 hues. The plumage of the lower parts is harsh and 

 hair-like, giving the bird an unkempt appearance. The 



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