2 26 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



There are three specimens in the collection of the Peabody Academy, at 

 Salem. One of these was taken by S. Jillson, in Essex County, in 1855, and is 

 recorded in the Naturalist's Guide. 1 A second was taken in the County on 

 May 4th, 1878. The third was taken at Manchester, on December 16th, 1894. 

 There is a fine male in the collection of the late Dr. Charles Palmer of Ipswich, 

 probably taken in that place; also one in the collection of the late Dr. J. A. 

 Jeffries, given him by Welch and taken in Swampscott in March, 1878. Mr. 

 J. A. Farley tells me that one was seen about thirty years ago at Andover. 



Dr. J. A. Allen 2 states in an article on the Decrease of Birds : " It is also 

 a matter of record that the Red-headed Woodpecker has nearly disappeared, 

 almost within the present generation, from all the region east of the Hudson 

 River, where it was formerly as common, apparently as it is now in any of the 

 Middle or Western States." Nuttall 3 says that it " is but rarely seen in the 

 maritime parts of Massachusetts, this region is only occasionally visited by 

 solitary stragglers ; yet, in the western parts of the state, they are said to be as 

 common as in the middle states." 



Miss G. B. Goldsmith, of Manchester, writes me that she saw a Red- 

 headed Woodpecker in Salem, on January 15th, 1903, and at frequent intervals 

 from that date until the first or middle of June. A friend had seen the bird at 

 intervals since the last of November. The Woodpecker remained in the same 

 vicinity all this time, and was very tame, allowing a number of bird-students to 

 approach within a few feet of the tree. 



179 [412a] Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs. 

 Northern Flicker; "Golden-winged Woodpecker"; "Pigeon Woodpecker." 



Resident, very common in summer, not uncommon in winter. 



Eggs: May 20 to June 20. 



It is common to find old barns riddled with holes made by Flickers, the 

 holes being made generally along the seams between two boards. Mr. J. A. 

 Farley 4 describes such a barn in Lynnfield, where a Flicker nested, laying her 

 eight eggs in a depression in a pile of hay " close to the side of the barn and 



1 C. J. Maynard: The Naturalist's Guide, p. 129, 1870. 



2 J. A. Allen: Bull. Nuttall Om. Club, vol. 1, p. 55, 1876. 



3 Thomas Nuttall: A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada, vol. 1, p. 

 570, 1832. 



1 J. A. Farley: Auk, vol. 18, p. 399, 1901. 



