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of under parts streaked with dark brown; upper parts usually a rusty 

 brown; tail brownish, barred with white; head speckled white over brown. 

 Nest: In a hollow tree or deserted woodpecker hole. Eggs, usually 4, 

 white in color. 



Order COCCYGES: Cuckoos, Etc. 

 Family Alcedinid^: Kingfishers. 

 Genus Ceryle. 

 390. Ceryle alcyon Linn. Belted kingfisher. Common everywhere. 



Description: Middle parts of tail, crest and upper parts of body bluish 

 gray; nuchal collar and under parts white; blue-graycollar across the breast; 

 tail black except middle part. 



Nest: The nest is a burrow in the river bank or in the side of some bluff. 

 The female usually lays from 6 to 8 white eggs. The young are kept in the 

 burrow till quite large; then are taken out and taught to hunt for them- 

 selves. 



At LaPush the crows and the kingfishers fight over the fish the king- 

 fisher has been lucky enough to catch. As soon as the catch is made, a 

 dozen crows will pounce upon the lucky fisherman and take his fish from 

 him. But the crow pays for his fish. The kingfisher will follow the thiev- 

 ing crow and scold him till he tires out. 



Order PICI: Woodpeckers, Etc. 

 Family Picid-e: Woodpeckers. 

 Genus D7-yobates. 

 393c. Dryobates villosus harrisii Aud. Harris woodpecker. Common. 



Description: White stripe down the back; nape scarlet; upper parts gen- 

 erally black; wings lightly spotted with white; under parts light smoky 

 brown. Length of bird 10. 



This bird nests in the holes in the trees that itself has pecked out. Eggs 

 usually white in color. 



Genus Sphyrapicus. 



403a. Sphyrapicus ruber notkensis Suckow. Northern red-breasted sap- 

 sucker. Common. (?). 



Description: Back, wings and tail black, marked with white; belly olive- 

 yellow; head, neck and chest all sometimes red; breast always a bright 

 red. Length of bird 8. 



404. Sphyrapicus thyroideus Cass. Williamson sapsucker. Rare, except 



in migration. 



Genus Ceophloeus. 



405. Ceophloeus pileatus abieticola Bangs. Northern Pileated woodpecker; 



cock of the woods. Seen only in migration. 



Description: Entire top of head, malar stripe and occipital crest bright 

 red; rest of head whitish sulphur-yellow; patches on wings white; feathers 

 on belly tipped with whitish; rest of plumage generally grayish black. 



Genus Colaptes. 

 413. Colaptes cafer collaris Vigors. Red-shafted flicker. Seen only in mi- 

 gration. 



Description: "Mustache" and nuchal band red; rump white; tail black; 

 general color of rest of body plumage, including head, brownish; under parts 

 spotted with black; upper parts barred. Length of bird 14. 



410a. Colaptes cafer saturatior Ridgw. Northwestern flicker. A common 

 summer resident. 



Description: Similar to No. 413 above, but darker. 



