SUPPLEMENT TO BIRDS OF ESSEX COUNTY ng 



182 [405a] Phloeotomus pileatus abieticola (Bangs). 



Northern Pileated Woodpecker. 

 Accidental visitor. 



In the original Memoir I was unable to give the source of the record of the 

 Manchester, 1885, bird. It is as follows: "Salem, Mass., Dec. 28 [1885]. A 

 pileated woodpecker was shot last week at Manchester, Mass. This is a rare 

 Essex County bird. . . . X. Y. Z."^ Mr. Damsell's notes supply two more in- 

 stances, namely, "a young male shot July 8, 1886; and a bird shot by one Moses 

 Tewkesbury at Kimball's Pond, October 4, 1895. Both of these were mounted, 

 and the measurements of the former are entered in one of the notebooks." 



In the fall of the year about 1907 or 1908, Mr. Arthur B. Fuller, now taxi- 

 dermist for the Boston Society of Natural History, saw one of these birds at 

 Hatfield's Corner near Essex. 



Several oblong mortised holes, characteristic of the work of this bird, were 

 found by Mr. R. Nichols in a small white oak near his camp at Boxford in the 

 spring of 1919. They were evidently freshly made in the living tree. The tree 

 was cut down and borers found at the heart. 



On May 18, 19 19, I found an old stub in the Topsfield Marshes that had a 

 number of the same characteristic holes of this bird. 



183 [406] Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linn.). 

 Red-headed Woodpecker. 

 Rare and irregular visitor ; rare summer resident. 



Damsell- records one shot at East Salisbury on August 30, 1884. On April 

 14, 191 1, one was seen at Hamilton by Miss M. E. Ward. Another, or perhaps 

 the same bird, was seen on June 3 of the same year at Lynn by Miss Ward and 

 Mr. George Bubier. 



Mr. S. Waldo Bailey^ reported seeing one at Newburyport on July 13, 1912. 

 The bird had been seen by others earlier in the season. He also says, " Some 

 twenty years ago a pair of these birds were found nesting in an old orchard in 

 the southern end of the town. Just at the time that the four young were ready 



1 Forest and Stream, vol. 25, p. 443, 1885. 



2 Allen. G. M. Auk, vol. 30, p. 26, 1913. 

 ^ Bailey, S. W. Auk, vol. 29, p. 541, 1912. 



