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time. Walter G. Savage writes: " About twenty j^ears ago my 

 father shot one, the only record I have in our locality. I have a 

 painting of the bird and was with the man when he shot it. It 

 was taken in the western part of Henry county, on Big Cedar." 



W. W. Cooke states: " This is one of the migratory wood- 

 peckers, but its movements are not extensive. In the Mississippi 

 Valley these movements are limited to a migration from its sum- 

 mer home in British America to the United States, where it 

 remains during the winter, returning in the spring. . . . Indi- 

 viduals have been known to occur in northern Illinois, but are 

 seldom seen south of latitude 40°" (Bird Migr. in Miss. Val., 1884- 

 85, p. 129). 



It has been taken three times in the state, twice at Omaha, 

 once by I. S. Trostler, December 15, 1895, and again by F. J. 

 Breese, and at Dakota City by Wallace Bruner (Rev. Bds. Neb., 

 P- 59)- 



Genus Sphyrapicus Baird. 



180. (402). Sphyrapicus varms (Linn.). Yellow-bellied Sap- 

 sucker. 



The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is a common migrant over the 

 whole of Iowa, and a tolerably common summer resident in most 

 parts of the state, especiallj- in the northern parts. The species 

 usually arrives in the early part of April. "In the winter of 

 1884 it was found as far north as Danville, Illinois, and Morning 

 Sun, Iowa, but was rare at both places. . . . Though rarely 

 breeding south of latitude 42°, it nests regularly but a short dis- 

 tance farther north. It has been known to breed at La Porte 

 City, Iowa (42°, 18')," (Cooke, Bird Migr. in Miss. Val., 1884-85 

 p. 129). Walter J. Savage reports: "Common summer resident; 

 I have two sets of eggs taken in Van Buren county." "Rather 

 common; breeds; migratory," (Decatur and Mahaska counties, 

 Trippe, Proc. Bost. Soc, xv, 1872, p. 233). J. E. Law took a set 

 of eggs at Lake Mills in spring of 1893 (Winnebago). It is re- 

 corded as a summer resident from Poweshiek (Kelsey); Pottawat- 

 tamie-Mills (Trostler); Polk (Johnson, Keyes and Williams); 

 Blackhawk (Peck, Salisbury); Lee (Praeger, Currier); Linn 

 (Keyes, Bailey, Berry); Warren (Jeifrey). 



