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in;.;" about three acres of a hillside, in its search foi 

 food. A portion of the time it spent among" the raspberr} 

 bushes, the rest of the time it was moving" about through the 

 orchard and pasture with all the fearlessness and unconcern 

 of a chicken that was in its own home. 



Northern I'ii.eated Woodpecker, Plihvoloiints pilcatiis 

 abicticola. — This species cannot be very rare in this vicinity 

 since at least a half dozen of my neighbors have told me that 

 they had seen it in the woods in recent years. This has hap- 

 })ened usually in the winter when they were cutting wood. I 

 had the gocKl fortune to see one on June 15 as it sat for several 

 miinites on a dead limb about fifty yards away. 



Red-bellie!) W'oodpecker, Cciititnis caroliiins. — On April 

 liith while on a farm near Steuben, Wisconsin, I saw a Red- 

 bellied Woodpecker come to get its breakfast of corn from 

 ears that were hung on the frame of the wind-mill as food 

 for the birds. 'Jd"ie owner of the place said that it had been 

 a regular boarder all winter. This place must be near the 

 northern lin"iit of the range of this species. It is thus given 

 in "The Birds of Wisconsin" by Kumlien and Hollister. 



Cardin.\l, Cardinalis cordinalis. — In the Wilson Bulletin 

 for June. I!»0S, 1 reported having seen in the previous April 

 a ])air of Cardinals at the mouth of Sny Magill Creek. So 

 far as known these were the first of this species to be identi- 

 field in this count}'. Late in December, IDO.S, the family of 

 Mrs. M. A. Jordan, of McGregor, Iowa, w^as startled one 

 morning by a rare and radiant vision, that of a brilliantly 

 colored Cardinal standing in the freshly fallen snow near the 

 lunch table s])read for the birds. He soon became a regular 

 boarder, fighting the English vSparrows that stole the corn 

 he had cracked, and showing fear of the l^.luc favs. His 

 roosting i)lace was disco\'ercd to be in a cluni]) of evergreens 

 a few rods away, lie continued to come for food until the 

 early days of Ajjril. ?\Irs. Jordan, who has resided in Mc- 

 (Iregor for more than fifty years, is confident that this was 



