272 THE BIRDS OF MAINE 



?. Lower parts black, unstreaked. Northern Pileated Wood- 

 pecker (male). 

 ??. Belly yellowish, sides streaked. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 

 (female). 

 B. Head and nape without any red. 



1 . Below white, not spotted or streaked. 



§. Outer tail feathers pure white. Hairy Woodpecker (female). 

 §§. Outer tail feathers black barred. Downy Woodpecker (female). 



2. Spotted or otherwise marked below with black. 



§. Back black, toes three. Arctic three-toed Woodpecker. 

 §§. Back black and white ; toes three or four. 



?. Toes three ; crown yellow or spotted with white ; outer tail 



feathers white. American three-toed Woodpecker. 

 ??. Toes f oiu: ; outer tail feathers not pure white. 



a'. Rump white ; outer tail feathers black, only narrowly mar- 

 gined with white. Red-headed Woodpecker (female). 

 a*. Outer tail feathers with broken white bars. Yellow- 

 bellied Sapsucker (female). 



Genus DRYOBATES Boie. 



393. Dr y abates villosus (lAwn.^ . Hairy Woodpecker; Big 

 Sapsucker; Big Guinea Woodpecker. 



Plumage of adult male : nape with scarlet band ; above black except for 

 white in middle of back and white spots on wing and their coverts ; outer 

 tail feathers pure white ; stripe above and below eye and under parts white. 

 Plumage of adult female: differs only in lacking the scarlet nape band. 

 Wing 4.50 to 5.00 ; culmen 1.20. 



Geog. Dist. — Resident in northern and middle United States from the 

 Atlantic to the Great Plains. 



County Records. — Androscoggin; fairly common resident, (Johnson). 

 Aroostook; fairly common resident, (Knight). Cumberland; common 

 resident, (Mead). Franklin; common resident, (Lee and McLain). Han- 

 cock; resident, (Murch). Kennebec; common resident, (Gardiner Branch). 

 Knox; resident, (Rackliff). Oxford; common, breeds, (Nash). Penobscot; 

 breeds quite commonly, commoner in winter when it may be observed 

 almost daily in the City of Bangor, (Knight). Piscataquis; common resi- 

 dent, (Homer). Sagadahoc; common, nests, (Spinney). Somerset; com- 

 mon resident, (Mcrrell). Waldo; common resident, (Knight). Washington ; 

 abundant, (Boardman). York; quite common, (Adams). 



The species is generally distributed and resident throughout 



the State, frequenting the wooded shores of ponds and streams 



and the stub filled clearings of the less frequented sections. In 



