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Family Picidae — The Woodpeckers. 



Of the eight species of "Woodpeckers found in Pennsylvania and 

 New Jersey, three are generally distributed; the Downy Woodpecker 

 and Flicker being abundant and the Hairy Woodpecker less common. 

 The Red-headed Woodpecker is irregularly distributed, being a com- 

 mon l)reeder in some districts and very rare in others. The Yellow- 

 bellied Sapsucker is a common migrant, breeding along the moun- 

 tains. Of the remaining species, the Pileated Woodpecker is almost 

 entirely restricted to the mountain forests, while the Red-bellied and 

 Red-cockaded species are mere stragglers in eastern Pennsylvania 

 and New Jersey.* 



18G. Dfyobates villosus (Linn.). Hairy Woodpecker. 



BiiEKDiXG Range — Eastern U. S. except the S. Atlantic and Gulf States. f 

 WiNTEii Distribution — About the same. 



Resident, most abundant in the mountains and in the wilder sec- 

 tions of the country; occurring in the thickly settled districts in 

 winter. 



Hairy Woodpeckers from the Pennsylvania mountains seem to 

 have decidedly longer bills than the lowland birds, this being per- 

 haps an approach towards the northern variety, D. villosus leucomelas. 



187. Dryobntes i>i<&e,sceii.9 (Link.). Downy Wood- 

 pecker. 



Breeding Range — Throughout eastern N. A. 

 Winter Distribution — About the same. 



Abundant resident and generally distributed, though to a certain 

 extent replaced by D. villosus in the sparsely settled country. 



[188.] Dryohates borealis (Vieill.). Red-cockaded 

 Woodpecker. 



Breeding Range — Southern States, eastern Texas to N. Carolina, and 



occasionally farther north. 

 Winter Distribution — Same. 



A very rare straggler from the south. Mr. T. G. Gentry records the 

 capture of a specimen in Delaware county. Pa. (Life -Histories of 



* Audubon states {Orn. Biog., II., p. 198) that he saw a few Three-toed 

 Woodpeckers, Picoides arclicus. in the Great Pine Forest of Pennsylvania, but no 

 specimens seem to have been secured, and the record has never been veritied. 



f It is there replaced by the Hairy Woodpecker, D. villosus auduboni. 



