76 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OP MICHIGAN. 



lSO-402-(-4-4:<>). Sphyrapieiis varius {Linn.). * Yellow-bellied Sapsucker; 

 Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. 



Quite abundant in the spring; occasional in summer; found all months from April 

 to October; rarely seen as late as December; breeds in May and June; "often takes three 

 weeks to pock the hole for nest, which is often found in sound ash trees " (Dr. W. C. 

 Brownell); eggs five to seven, white; " the Sapsucker" (Butler's Birds of Indiana); 

 •• taps trees more than either the Hairy or Downy Woodpecker according to my observa- 

 tion" (S. E. White): '■ this is surely the Sapsucker par excellence at Grand Rapids" 

 (E. L. Moseley); "I know it is a Sapsucker as I have seen it at work" (E. B. Boies); 

 "this is the Sapsucker. not only of Indiana but everywhere" (A. W. Butler); the old 

 ornithologists always refer to the Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers as the Sa^jsuckers, 

 and I and others believe that we have seen them sucking the sap from evergreens here 

 on the college campus. The evidence seems overwhelming that this species is the one 

 that makes the regular holes in pine, orchard and especially maple trees, thus tapping 

 them and coming again for the sap. (See Auk. Vol. 8, p. 25G.) Mr. E. E. Brewster 

 writes that this is common at Iron Mountain, where he has shot it as it was taking 

 maple sap. He says that the feathers were all sticky from the sugar on them. 



Genus (^EOPilLG^:US ("ah. 



Pileated Woodpecker, natural size. 



181-4(>5-(4;J2). CeoplildMis pileatus Linn. * Pileated Woodpecker; Black 

 Woodpecker; Log Cock; Wooih;ock (Michigan and Indiana). 



Once common throughout the state; found at all seasons; now very rare; one seen 

 near college in summer of 1892; "extinct at Ann Arbor" (J. B. Steere); "not seen in 

 Monroe County since 1887, though once common" (Jerome Trombley); "rare in Kent 

 County " (S. E. White); "Grand Traverse County" (M. L. Leach); "Mackinac Island" 

 (S.E.White); " Keweenaw Point " (Kneeland); "not uncommon at Iron Mountain" 

 (E. E. Brewster); " Upper Peninsula where it probably breeds" (A. H. Boies); still com- 

 mon north, especially in the Northern Peninsula; confined to thick forests; our largest 

 Woodpecker; breeds; " L. E. Reed found a nest with eggs in May, in Van Buren Co." 

 (Dr. M. Gibbs); eggs three to six; noise from pecking heard for long distances. Until 

 within a few years this bird was common in the forests about the college, where I have 

 taken several. 



