30 Birds of Kansas. 



Genus SPHYRAPICUS Baikd. 



B. 85. R. 369. C. 446. G. 169. U. 402. 



154. Sphyrapicus varius (Linn.). Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Migratory; rare. 

 Arrive about the middle of April. 



B. 86. R. 369a. C. 447. G. —. U. 402a. 



155. Sphyrapicus varius nuchalis Baibd. Red-naped Sapsucker. Migratory 

 in western Kansas; rare. I killed a pair out of three young birds found in 

 the willows and cottonwoods thinly skirting the south fork of the Smoky Hill 

 river, at Wallace, October 12th and 14th, 1883. 



Genus CEOPHLCEUS Cabanis. 



B. 90. R. 371. C. 432. G. 170. U. 405. 



156. Oeophloeus pileatus (Linn.). Pileated Woodpecker. Not an uncommon 

 resident along the streams in heavily wooded bottom lands. Begin laying 

 about the first of April. Nest in a deep, round hole, chipped out by the bird 

 in a large limb or trunk of a high tree. Eggs, four or six; average dimensions 

 said to be 1.25x1.00; pure crystal white; in form elliptical. 



Genus MELANERPES Swainson. 

 Subgenus MELANERPES. 



B. 94. R. 375. C. 453. G. 172. U. 406. 



157. Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linn.). Red-headed Woodpecker. Sum- 

 mer resident; occasionally linger into the winter. Begin laying about the 

 middle of May. Nests in holes which it excavates in trees, telegraph poles, and 

 often, for want of a better place, cTiips into church steeples and the cornice 

 about the roofs of dwellings. Eggs, four to six; 1.04x.80; pure translucent 

 white; in form elliptical. 



Subgenus ASYNDESMUS Coues. 



B. 96. R. 376. C. 456. G. 158. U. 408. 



158. Melanerpes torquatus (Wils.). Lewis's Woodpecker. Reported by Prof. 



F. H. Snow to the Academy of Science, in the fall of 1878: "Taken at Ellis 



by Dr. W^atson, May 6th, 1878. One specimen was obtained from a flock of 



six or eight." 



Subgenus CBNTURUS Swainson. 



B. 91. R. 372. C. 450. G. 171. U. 409. 



159. Melanerpes carolinus (Linn.). Red-bellied Woodpecker. Resident; abun- 

 dant. Begin laying early in April. Nesting place excavated in decaying 

 trunks and limbs of trees. Eggs, four or five; 1.05x.80; pure translucent 

 white; in form elliptical. 



Genus COLAPTES Swainson. 



B. 97. R. 378. C. 457. G. 174. U. 412. 



160. Colaptes auratus (Linn.). Flicker. Resident; common. Begin laying 

 the last of April. Nests in holes excavated in dead or decaying trunks of 

 trees, and occasionally in church steeples and cornices about buildings. Eggs, 

 five to seven; 1.03x.84; pure pearly white; in form elliptical. 



