Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 519 



Adult female: Similar, but only the nape and feathers about the 

 nostrils, red; the crown, ashy gray. 



Immature birds have the belly tinged with buff. 



Length, 9.40; wing, 5.10; tail, 3.25; bill, i.io. 



The Red-bellied Woodpecker is a rather uncommon resident in 

 northern Illinois and Wisconsin, but common in southern Illinois, 

 Mr. H. K. Coale observed a pair in Lincoln Park in July, and a few 

 are observed every year in and about Chicago. 



According to Kumlien and Hollister it has been found breeding 

 several times in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. "The nesting sites 

 were always in large, dead trees overhanging water and generally at 

 a considerable height and very hard to reach. Mr. W. E. Snyder 

 records three specimens from Dodge County in June, October, and 

 November. We took a single specimen in Milwaukee County in 

 May, 1882, but in no part of the state have we found it as plenty as 

 along the bottom lands of Koshkonong Creek, Jefferson County." 

 (Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, p. 77.) 



Breeds from April 15 to June i ; nests in holes in trees and stumps. 

 The eggs are white, four to six in number, and measure about 1.05 x 

 .75 inches. 



The Field Museum collection contains a set of 3 eggs taken at Joliet, 

 Illinois, May 26, 1906. 



Genus COLAPTES Swainson. 



197. Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs. 

 Northern Flicker. 



Distr.: "Eastern and northern North America, south to North 

 Carolina, west to the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains; occasional 

 on Pacific slope from California northward." (A. O. U.) 



Adult male : Top of head and sides of neck, ashy gray; a band of 

 scarlet on back of the head (nuchal band ) ; sides of head, whole throat 

 and upper breast, lilac brown; a broad black band on the breast; a 

 black submaxillary stripe (on the cheeks extending to base of the bill) ; 

 back and exposed wing coverts, olive brown, with bars of black; 

 under parts, whitish, shading to buffy white on the sides and marked 

 with numerous round, black spots; upper surface of primaries, dark 

 brown; the shafts of the feathers bright yellow; under surface of 

 primaries, golden yellow; upper surface of tail feathers, blackish, 

 some of them edged with buffy white spots, the shafts, yellow; under 

 surface of tail, golden yellow, tipped with black; rump, pure white 

 (conspicuous when flying) ; bill, horn color. 



