ANNOTATED List OF SPECIES : 75 
Amherst : “Common summer resident.” Berkshire: “ Common sum- 
mer resident.’’ Bristol County: “ Permanent resident, abundant in sum- 
mer.’’ Brookline: “A permanent resident, not uncommon in the winter, 
abundant in the summer.” Cambridge: Very common summer resident, 
common winter resident. Cohasset: ‘ Numerous all the year.” Ded- 
ham: ‘‘ Common resident.’? Essex County: “ Resident. Common.” 
Ipswich : “ Abundant permanent resident.” Martha’s Vineyard: “Com- 
mon resident.” Springfield: ‘Abundant summer resident, a few re- 
maining during the winter.” Templeton: “ Abundant summer resident.” 
Wellesley : ‘* Common summer resident.” 
202. Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linn.). REp-HEADED 
WOODPECKER. 
An irregular visitant at all seasons of the year, and occasionally 
common in autumn. It has been known to breed rarely in the west- 
ern part of the State, where the latest definite record is at Aga- 
wam in 1889.’ It occurred near Boston in unusual numbers in the 
autumn of 1881. 
Amherst: ‘Very rare.’’ Berkshire: “ Very rare summer resident.” 
Bristol County: “ Rare and irregular straggler.” Brookline: “An irreg- 
ular visitant.” Cambridge: Irregular at all seasons, sometimes common 
in fall. Dedham: “One taken in August, 1881.” Essex County: 
“Spring and autumn. Very rare.’? Martha’s Vineyard: “ Rare.” 
Springfield: “Irregular and rather rare visitor. Has been known to 
breed.”’ Templeton: “ Rare straggler.”’ Wellesley : ‘‘ Scarce and irreg- 
ular fall and winter resident.”’ 
203. Melanerpes carolinus (Linn.). RED-BELLIED Woop- 
PECKER. 
Accidental from the south. The records are: Spring field, one 
seen May 13, 1863 ;* Mewton, a pair seen, and the female shot by 
Mr. William Adair, November 25, 1880; 3 Cohasset, a male was 
taken by Mr. Matthew Luce, Jr., on May 28, 1881;4 Ciinton, a 
male seen July 17, 1896.° 
204. Sphyrapicus varius (Linn.). YELLow-BeLtiep Sap- 
SUCKER. 
A fairly common spring and autumn migrant, and in Berkshire 
1 Morris; Auk, Vol. VI, No. 4, Oct., 1889, p. 340. 
7 Allen; Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. TV, 1864, p: 53. 
? Plummer; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Voi. VI, No. 2, Apr., 1881, p. 120. 
* Brewster; zdzd., Vol. VI, No. 3, July, 1881, p. 183. 
°Farmer; Osprey, Vol. I, No. 3, Nov., 1896, p. 30. 
