i89i.] 



Hasbkouck on the Ivory-hilled Woodfecker. 1 83 



there now ; ami Aiulul>on * mentions it as very abundant along 

 Bufllilo Bayou. In 1S65, Dresser, in his list of Texas birds,t 

 states that the species was "found on the Brazos River, where 

 the timber is large ; and a planter on the Trinity River told me 

 that it is not uncommon there. A friend of mine on the Brazos 

 promised to procure the eggs for me, but wrote to me, in Ma> , 

 1864, saying that he had been to the nest and found it to contain 

 young ones. He said that these birds are by no means rare on 

 the Upper Brazos." Mr. Nehrling t states that in 18S2 it was 

 very rare in the northern parts of Harris and Montgomery Coun- 

 ties, while last but not least is the record of Mr. Goss, in Jasper 

 County in 18S5, already mentioned. 



Returning to the Mississippi Valley proper and continuing 

 northward into Arkansas we find that Audubon mentions it as 

 occurring along the Arkansas River; while in 18S5 it was still 

 found in" the northeastern part of the State, being abundant at 



Newport. § 



At Caddo, Indian Territory, it passed the winter of 1SS3- 

 i8S4,§ while in Missouri, according to Mr. Lientz, it formerly 

 bred at Fayette, § although not known to do so at present, and as 

 far west as Kansas City § it was observed to pass a few winters 

 immediately preceding 1885. 



Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky each have one record (although 

 Audubon mentions it as occurring in Indiana and Kentucky, 

 failing, however, to name any locality). In Franklin County, 

 Indiana, itjl was a former resident, but none have been seen for 

 many years. Mr. Ridgway states that he "has a distinct recol- 

 lection of what he believes to have been this species in White 

 County, some forty miles south of Mt. Carmel,'^ Illinois,^ some 

 time between 1858 and i860; while Pindar** informs us^that it is 

 said to have been formerly common in Fulton County, Kentucky, 

 and that Mr. J. A. Taylor saw several about 1883 or 1884. 



For Tennessee no records have been found, although it would 

 seem highly probable that the bird occurs in the bottom lands 

 bordering the Mississip pi, especially when we consider the reco rd 



* Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 525. 

 tibis, 1865,468. 

 + Bull. N. O. C. VII, 1882, 170. 

 >;> Miss. Valley Migr. 1888, 128. 

 llCoxe's Geol. Surv. Ind. 1869, 211. 

 UNat. Hist. Surv. 111. 1889, 375. 

 **Auk, VI, 1889, 313- 



