THE CAT.. WIS WOODPECKER. 



419 



oil tlic stub lie emerged; 

 ami proceeding to In- 

 druniniing ground al)o\i'. Ik- 

 rolled repeatedly. B_\' and 

 b}' tbe female answered in 

 tbe distance with the /'//;/;/' 

 or /"//r/c note. Soon she ai- 

 rived upon the nesting stub. 

 whcreujion Mr. Hairy tnnk 

 himself off promptly, and 

 Mrs. Hairy entereil the nest 

 and settled to her eggs. Or 

 so you would have supi)osed, 

 wouldn't you? By the aid 

 of si.xteen spikes, "Oo's." 

 and a ro])e, I climbed to the 

 nest, thirty-five feet up. 

 With a small hand-axe I (.11 

 larged the entrance (sacri- 

 ficing incidentally a thumb- 

 nail, and giving sad e\ideiu-e 

 of the swa_\- of "mortal 

 nn'nd" 1 to find only diic 

 fresh egg. fourteen inches 

 down. 



Of course it was disa]i 

 pointing. l)ut the egg was a 

 I)earl, so transparent that one 

 could see the \ery outlines 

 of the imjjrisoned \'olk. 



\ESTi\c. Sim or rocky Mor 



WOODPECKER. 



No. 163. 



CABANIS'S WOODPECKER. 



.\. O. I'. Xfi. 393 d. Dryobates villosis hyloscopus (Cab. I. 



Synonym. — Roik\ Mointai.n Mairn Woiiiu'i-cker (name now restricted 

 ti) [>recediiij,' fnrni ). 



Description. — Similar to P. f. iiwiiticoUi but averaging smaller; lores chiefly 

 or entirely wliite : undc-rpart-i more or less soiled whitish: some few wliite spots 



