122 ' Birds of Canada. 
S40 P Pao Nis Nets 
FAMILY PICIDH. THE WOODPECKERS. 
Sub-Famtly PICINA. 
Centurees carolinensis —TVhe Red-bellied 
Woodpecker. 
The Red-bellied Woodpecker is a common 
summer resident of Canada. It possesses all 
the active and noisy habits characteristic of its 
family. Length, ten inches; color, above, black, 
crossed with white; wings, black, tipped with 
bars of white ; head, neck, and shoulders, glossy 
red; cheeks and under sides of the neck, pale 
buff ; breast and abdomen, yellowish-ash, stained 
with bright red; legs and feet, bluish-green ; 
iris, red. Nests, in a hollow limb; eggs, four, 
pure white. This species seldom appears about 
orchards or open grounds; but it often visits 
corn fields in search of grain, of which it is 
particularly fond. Its principal food is insects, 
which it obtains from decayed trees after the 
manner of other woodpeckers. 
