316 



WOODPECKERS. 



ulous, yucka note rarely given. Frequents 

 open woodlands. 



335. RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 



Smaller, 9; colors in masses; head and 

 neck all around, crimson ; band on second- 

 aries and rump and beneath, white; remain- 



Fiff. 252 



Ked-headed Woodpecker. 1-6. 



ing upper portions, black, fig. 252. Young, 

 head, gray; white of secondaries, broadly 

 banded with black. Sexes, similar. Breeds 

 in the U. S. west to the Rockies; local east 

 of the Hudson, usually migratory north of 

 Penn. Very noisy, cries harsh and loud. 



