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CLXXIII. CENTCJRUS Swainson. 1837. 

 409. Red-bellied Woodpecker. 



Centurus carolinus (Linn.) Bonap. 1838. 



A few pairs breed near London. I have found several nests, 

 usually in the dead top of a living maple or beech tree, and from 

 forty to seventy feet above the ground. They nest early in the 

 year, and I find them excavating usually about April 20 to 30th. 

 Hardly a year passes that I do not locate one or more breeding pairs- 

 Until about 1885 they were very abundant in the counties west of 

 London, Ont., but their numbers have greatly lessened of late. {W. 

 E. Saunders.) Rare about Toronto; commoner in southwestern On- 

 tario. (/. H. Fleming.) A female was taken in Toronto, Ont.) 

 May 19th, 1885. {E. T. Seton.) On July 27th, 1894, I took 

 an immature specimen of this species at Twin Lakes, border of Lake 

 township, northeast of Havelock. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) Accidental 

 visitant in the Montreal district; rare. Mr. Kuetzing says this 

 species occurs in the Eastern Townships, but I have not observed 

 it near Montreal and will treat it as a straggler until more is known 

 of it in this district. (Wintle.) 



CLXXIV. COLAPTES Swainson. 1827. 



412a. Northern Flicker. 



Colaptes aiiratus luteus Bangs. 1898. 



Herr Moschler has recorded the receipt of a specimen from Green- 

 land in 1852. {Arct. Man.) An accidental straggler was procured 

 from the mainland near Akapatok island, Hudson strait, in October, 

 1882. Reported to be a common summer visitor to Northwest 

 river, Labrador. {Packard.) Observed all along the Moose river 

 to Moose Factory, and a few as far north as Fort George in Labrador, 

 June, 1896, and to Cockpenny point in 1904. (Spreadborough.) A 

 summer visitor and tolerably common in Newfoundland. (Reeks.) 

 One seen on the Humber river, Newfoundland, October, 1898. 

 (L. H. Porter.) Fort Churchill, Hudson bay. (Clarke.) Not com- 

 mon at Lake Mistassini, northern Quebec, in 1885. (/. M. Macoun.) 

 We found flickers rather common throughout the region between 

 Lake Winnipeg and Hudson bay and saw several at Fort Churchilh 



