64 C. H. Merruim — Birds of Connecticut. 



Noveml)or, 18*76; and " Mr. Wm. King took a specimen, several yeai's 

 ago, at Suffield, Conn."* No longer ago than 1839, Peabody gave it 

 as residc'iit in JNIassaehnsetts, wliere it was " not nnconnnon in tlie 

 woodlands.^f 



137. PicUS villosUS Linne. Hairy Woodpecker. 



Resident, Init not common. Have taken four specimens and seen 

 several others in the immediate vicinity of New Haven. Found 

 chiefly in winter. Mr. Coe tells me that it is quite common about 

 Portland, ("onn. 



138. PicuS pubescens Linne. Downy Woodpecker. 



A common resident ; found everywliere except in open fields 

 devoid of stumps and fences. 



139. Picoides arcticUS (Swainson) Gray. Black-backed Three-toed Wood- 



pecker. 



A rare winter visitor from the North. In the Museum at Middle- 

 town is a specimen, from the Shnrtlefl^' Collection, taken at Simsbury, 

 Conn,, in 1860. Dr. Wood has also taken it at East Windsor llill. 

 Conn. 



140. SphyrapicUS varius (Linne) Baird. Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. 



Rare about New Haven. Hav^e seen but four individuals (Sept. 

 28, and Oct. 2, 18V5, and March 30, and May 3, 1876). Mr. J. N. 

 Clark finds it to be "abundant in fiiU" at Saybrook.J Linsley gave 

 it from New London, Conn. It is rare about Portland, Conn., as I 

 am informed by Messrs. Coe and Sage. Mr. Thos. Osborne tells me 

 that they were quite common about New Haven last fall (1876) and 

 that he secured four specimens, Mr. Orinnell says tliat it is not 

 uncomm.on about Milford, Conn., in fall ; and Mr. J. N. Clark, of 

 Saybrook, writes me that he has observed it to l)e " very common 

 both in spring and fall," but that he " never saw it after April till 

 autimin." 



Though most Woodpeckers are residents where they are found at 



* MS. notes of Brwin I. Shores. 



•j- Peabody's Report on the Ornithology of Mass., p. .3.34. 18:!n. 



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