410 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. 84 



Family PICIDAE 



COLAPTES AURATUS LUTEUS Bangs 



Northern Flicker 



The flicker is universally distributed through the State, six males 

 and six females being included in the collection. Birds taken in the 

 breeding season, except in the northern section, are small and show 

 definite approach to the southern form, Colaptes auratus auratus. 

 A female from the south side of the Guyandot River near Huntington 

 taken on May 2 has the wing only 149.8 mm, suggesting the desira- 

 bility of further material from this area to determine whether breeding 

 birds may not be the southern subspecies. Another from o miles east 

 of Huntington, secured on April 21, measures 152.5 mm, but judged 

 from the date it may be a migrant from farther north. Males from 

 near Muddlety, Alay 14 (wing, 148.5), and Persinger, May 16 (wing, 

 151.2), are somewhat worn, as is one from the Cranberry Glades, 

 June 18 (wing, 151.2), and one from near Yokum Knob on Middle 

 Mountain, July 4 (wing, 150.7). A male from 7 miles east of Philippi, 

 Barbour County, June 2 (wing, 156) is distinctly large. A series of 

 three females taken near Flat Top, Mercer County, on Flat Top 

 Mountain, October 20, range in wing measurement from 154 to 161 

 mm and may be migrants from the north. The mountain birds are 

 somewhat worn and so would have shorter wings, but this does not 

 hold in the small specimen from near Huntington. After careful 

 consideration all are identified as of the northern race. 



CENTURUS CAROUNUS (Linnaeus) 



Red-bellied Woodpecker 



This species, only fairly common, was collected in Nicholas County 

 on Pine Creek near Enon, May 8, and at Gilboa, October 12; in 

 Barbour County, 5 miles east of Philippi, May 28 ; and in Pocahontas 

 County, at an elevation of 3,600 feet on Red Lick Mountain, Oc- 

 tober 9. An adult male from near Philippi has a suft'usion of pink 

 extending across the throat. 



MELANERPES ERYTHROCEPHALUS ERYTHROCEPHALUS (Linnaeus) 



Eastern Red-headed Woodpecker 



The present species is somewhat erratic in occurrence. Breeding 

 birds were taken near Yokum Knob on Middle Mountain in a locality 

 known as The Sinks on July 4. In fall these birds were abundant 

 on Cherry Pond Mountain, Raleigh County, near Arnett, where two 

 adults and one immature bird were taken October 20, and near Posey 

 in the same county, where three more, including another immature 

 bird, were secured October 23. It seems evident that they were 

 established at these points for the winter. The species was observed 



