184 REPOET OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Morristown. At the last locality/ as well as at Plainfield,^ it has been 

 found in winter. At Orange^ Mr. T. M. Trippe reported it as very 

 rare, and Mr. J. Van Rensselaer, Jr./ states that only one has been 

 seen in ten years. 



409 Centurus carolinus (Linnaeus). 

 Red-bellied Woodpecker. 



Adult male. — Length, 9-10. Wing, 4-5. Wiiole top of liead and back of neck, 

 brilliant scarlet ; rest of upper parts transversely barred with black and white ; 

 under surface, pale gray ; center of abdomen washed with red. 



Adult female. — Similar, but head gray on top ; red only on hind neck and 

 nostril plumes. 



Irregular straggler froin farther south. 



Dr. C. C. Abbott reports a nest of this species in Ocean county May 

 29th, 1861. No one else has found it breeding in the State, and there 

 seem to be only three other records of its occurrence, one at Keyport, 

 November 23d, 1887/ one at Ne^vton, November 16th, 1889,^ and 

 another at Cape May Point, April 11th, 1903.^ Mr. Babson states 

 that Mr. Scott saw some at Princeton, but gives no definite data. 



412 Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs. 



Flicker. 



PLATE 39. 



Adult male. — Length, 12.50. Wing, 5.50-6.50. Above, brownish-gray, trans- 

 versely barred with black ; top of head, plain ashy-gray, with a bright scarlet 

 crescent across the back of the neck ; rump, white ; upper tail-coverts, white, 

 barred with black ; primaries, secondaries and tail feathers, black, with yellow 

 shafts and yellow underneath ; secondaries with gray notches on the outer 

 webs ; under side of body vinaceous, becoming paler and slightly yellowish pos- 

 teriorly ; a black stripe on each side at the base of the bill ; a broad black 

 crescent on the breast, and rest of sides and abdomen thickly marked with round 

 black spots. 



1 O. and O., XL, p. 91. 



= Osprey, II., p. 91. 



' Amer. Nat., VII., p. 389. 



* Oologist, 1895, p. 79. 



^ Foster, Forest and Stream, XXIX., p. 363. 



" Lewis, Auk, 1890. 



^ Pennock, Cassinia, 1903, p. 75. 



