FAMILY Picidce 



Northern pileated woodpecker, Phlceo- 

 tomus pileatus ahieticola. 17.00 



Distribution: Heavily wooded regions of 

 North America from the southwestern Alle- 

 ghanies northward to about latitude 63, and 

 westward to the Pacific Coast. The western 

 pileated woodpecker is a new sub-species 

 found in the humid northwest coast district 

 from British Columbia south through Wash- 

 ington, Oregon, and California to Mendicino 

 county on the coast, and southern Sierra 

 Nevadas in the interior (Sequoia National 

 Park) ; east to Idaho and Western Montana. 



The pileated woodpecker, log-cock, or 

 cock-of-the-woods lives in the big woods, in 

 the broken hill country and the mountains. 

 It has become one of the rarer species, for its 

 large size and handsome appearance has been 

 its undoing, the so-called scientist, the collector 

 and the idle gunner having shot it out to 

 such an extent that it has become exceedingly 

 wary of the settlements. 



These woodpeckers may be found occa- 

 sionally in the valleys by twos and threes but 

 one must go to the mountains to find them in 

 their real hunting grounds. Here they may 

 often be heard knocking on the trees with 

 sledge-hammer blows as they dig into the 

 rotten wood for grubs. Their loud call, cuk, 

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