B12 LAND BIRDS 
even more courageous than the Sapsuckers, but the blue- 
birds flew far away. 
The young Sapsuckers must have been fledged when 
I discovered the nest, June 10; for on the twelfth they 
came out of the nursery and flew away with their brown 
mother and black and white father into the deeper woods, 
where I lost sight of them. A plummet dropped into 
the nest hole told me it was nine inches deep. It was 
on the sunny south side of the tree, and several degrees 
hotter inside than the surrounding atmosphere. As is 
always the case with woodpeckers, every bit of excre- 
ment had been carried away while fresh by the parent, 
and the nest was as clean as if freshly excavated. 
405a. NORTHERN PILEATED WOODPECKER. 
Ceophlaus pileatus abieticola. 
(Common Names: Cock of the Woods ; Log Cock.) 
Famity : The Woodpeckers. 
Length : 16.00-19.00. 
Adult Male; Head conspicuously crested; bill longer than head; top of 
head, crest, and malar stripe scarlet; chin and side of head pale 
lemon-color or white; a white patch on the wings; under wing- 
coverts white; rest of plumage dull brownish black ; feathers of 
belly tipped with ashy. 
Adult Female: Like male, but crown and malar stripe brown instead 
of red. 
Young : Crest salmon-colored, otherwise like female. 
Geographical Distribution: Heavily wooded districts of North America, 
from the Southern Alleghanies north to latitude 63°, west to the 
Pacific (Bailey). 
California Breeding Range: Timbered areas in the northern part of the 
Sierra Nevada as far south as King’s River Caion and Eel River. 
Breeding Season: May and June. 
