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inches; top of the head and back of the neck, scarlet; 

 back, transversely barred with black and white; breast 

 and belly, dull ash, with a red tinge in the middle; tail, 

 white and black; wings, black and white in bars and 

 spots. The female has the crown gray and the scarlet is 

 confined to a crescent-like patch on the back of the neck 

 and a little about the nostrils. The birds nest in holes in 

 trees as do the woodpeckers, the eggs being from four to 

 six in numl)er, one inch by three-fourths of an inch in 

 size. It is a resident of the Southern States and occasion- 

 ally a specimen straggles into New Jersey. 



W^ytodpecker^ Heil-hettded. — ^^Length, nine and three- 

 fourths inches; extent, seventeen inches; bill, one and 

 one-fifth inches; whole head, neck, throat and fore breast, 

 crimson red; back, black, with steel-blue gloss; rump, 

 white; lower breast and belly, white, sometimes tiuged 

 with red in the middle; tail, black, tipped with white; 

 wings, black, with steel-blue gloss, the eight inner feath- 

 ers white on their terminal half. The young birds lack 

 all trace of red; above, bluish black, strongly edged with 

 gray; rump, white; below^, dull wiiite, mottled with black- 

 ish on throat and breast; wiiite portion of wings barred 

 with black. The birds nest in holes in trees, the eggs 

 being from four to six in number, and one inch by three- 

 fourths of an inch in size. They breed in the eastern 

 United States but are scarce in New Jersey, seldom com- 

 ing east of the Delaw^are or Hudson rivers. 



l\'oodpefket\ ^'fllow-belliefl. See Sapsucker. 



IIV«?#i, Carolina, — Length, five and a half inches; ex- 

 tent, seven inches; bill, three-fifths of an inch, the upper 

 part bluish black, the lower light blue; a white line over 

 the eye. The upper parts are a bright rusty brow^n, 

 white, downy spots being concealed in the rump feathers; 

 the wings and tail are barred finely with black; the under 



