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common in Carroll County. An adult female shot, December 15, 1884, from 
an apple tree in my garden at Camden. It was feeding on a frozen apple. 
A very heavy snow had fallen the previous night, but the day was not cold. 
A month later, January 11, an adult male was shot from a wild cherry tree 
in the hen lot on the home farm near Burlington. On April 4, I saw a male 
“at Camden; and on April 16. I saw a male near my house in Camden. 
100. PHLG:0TOMUS PILEATUS PILEATUS (Linneus). 
PILEATED WOODPECKER. (405) 
Formerly a not uncommon permanent resident, but now very rare. Until 
destroyed in the Normal School fire of March 8, 1888, Mrs. Evermann and 
J had in our collection three specimens of this fine species,—one taken in 
the fall of 1885, on Beanblossom Creek near Bloomington, Indiana, (where 
another was taken at the same time), one (an adult male) taken near Met- 
amora, Greene County, by our friend Edwin Corr who brought it to us in the 
flesh Christmas day, 1885; and a third (a male) taken November 5, 1886, in 
the heavy woods near Coal Creek north of Terre Haute. 
When I was a small boy I often saw these big Black Log-cocks, as we 
called them, on my father’s farm near Burlington. They could be heard 
oftener than seen, their loud sonorous tatoo coming from out the dense 
forest, which, to us small boys, seemed very somber and full of many sorts 
of strange and dangerous animals. One might sometimes surprise one of 
these big birds beating his tatoo on the dead top of some old elm, maple 
or oak, and then see it fly away with a wild, frightened call. 
Sometimes these birds would come about the fields and pastures if there 
were any old dead trees, snags or stumps in them. I remember quite dis- 
tinctly seeing one on a large and tall rotten stump within a few rods of our 
house, Many years ago, perhaps in the early sixties. It was industriously 
hunting for grubs in the rotten wood. I had learned that yellowhammers 
and other woodpeckers could sometimes be killed or captured by slipping 
up upon them from the opposite side of the stump and striking arouna the 
stump with a flexible brush. I tried the experiment with this Log-cock. 
Securing a much-branched beech limb about four feet long, I stealthily ap- 
proached the stump. The Log-cock was so intent upon its quest for grubs 
that it was oblivious to my approach. When at the stump a smart blow 
on the side of the stump caused the flexible ends of the brush to strike the 
bird and stun it so severely that I had no difficulty in capturing it. 
101. MrLANERPES ERYTITROCEPHALUS (Linnieus). 
RED-IHEADED WOODPECKER. (406) 
Irom my earliest recollection the Red-headed Woodpecker has been to me 
perhaps the most familiar and best known of our native birds. In my 
boyhood days in Carroll County, it was excessively abundant and much de- 
tested by every farmer who had fields of corn or apples and cherries upon 
which it might feed. And that it was very destructive to the ears of corn 
while in the milk or roasting ear stage, can not be denied. To convince 
one of this fact, it was only necessary to take a look at the outer rows in 
any corn field, particularly on the side next to a woodland. In these rows 
not an ear escaped; every one showed the husk torn away at the distal end 
and from three to 10 square inches of the grains eaten more or less com- 
