DIKECTORY TO BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. L7T 



and little red on head, fig. 219; adult plumage, gradually as- 

 sumed. Breeds in eastern N. A. from Fig. 219. 

 northern Mass, northward; winters from 

 the Carolinas southward through the 

 Bahamas and West Indies to Costa Eica. 

 Migrates in April and Oct. Common. 

 Cries, excepting the '"'yiickcr'' note, all 

 harsh and quite querulous. 



b. Banded Woodpeckers. 

 Centuriis. 



Woodpeckers with stouter, slightly- 

 curved bills, banded with black and 

 white above, plain beneath. 



1. EED-BELLIED WOODPECKER, W, A, a, 1-6. 



C. CAROLiNUS. 10.00; male, top of head from bill to nape, 



scarlet; ashy-gray beneath more or less tinged with red; up- 



Fig. 220. per tail coverts, white, fig. 220; female with 



y^:Z^'~^ top of head gray, nape, scarlet. Resident in 



rN ^s^ ^ ) eastern IJ. S. from Penn. southward; casual 

 ffi ' S"slk\ ''^^ ^^^ north as Mass. Cries, harsh and quer- 

 ulous, with the ^''yucka''' note rarely given. 



c. Tri-colored Woodpeckers. 

 Melanerpes. 



Rather stout woodpeckers with colors, red,, 

 white and black, arranged in masses. 



1. RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, M. 

 ERYTHROCEPiiALUs. 9.00^ head and neck all 

 around, scarlet ; band on secondaries and rump 

 and beneath, white; remaining upper portions, 

 black, fig. 221. Young, head, gray; white of 

 secondaries broadly banded with black. Sexes, similar; 

 Breeds in the U. S. west to 1 he Rockies ; local east of the Hud- 

 son River, usually migratory north of Penn. Very noisy,, 

 cries, harsh and loud. 





