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BRONX REGION. Rather common transient; several old 

 winter records at Riverdale (Bicknell); April 1, 1917 (Granger) 

 to May 6, 1917 (Janvrin); September 26, 1914 (Hix) to 

 November. 



New Jersey. Uncommon spring, common fall transient, occa- 

 sional in winter. Recorded May 13, 1917 near Plainfield (Rogers). 

 ENGLEWOOD REGION. Regular transient, often rare or un- 

 common in spring; April 4, 1912 (Weber) to May 6, 1888 

 (Chapman); September 25, 1887 (Chapman) through October, 

 and occasionally to the end of December; an exceptionally 

 early bird noted September 9, 1905 (Hix and Wiegmann). 



NORTHERN PILEATED WOODPECKER (Phloeotomus pileatus 

 abieticola} 



This splendid bird is associated in everyone's mind with 

 the primeval wilderness, and is pictured as vanishing at the 

 approach of man. This was undoubtedly the case. The 

 Pileated Woodpecker was formerly generally distributed in 

 the northeast, but fifty years ago was virtually extinct in 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Hudson River Valley. 

 The last specimen in northern New Jersey was taken about 

 1880 near Mount ville, Morris County, and the last bird seen 

 in southern New Jersey was in 1908. Throughout this area 

 it has been regarded as a rare or accidental straggler. There 

 is some evidence, however, to show that in recent years the 

 bird has tended to reestablish itself in old localities, and to 

 become reconciled to some contact with civilization. Such 

 evidence exists in Central New York, and the Catskills, and 

 it has reappeared in western Massachusetts and Connecticut. 

 The discovery by Mr. W. DeW. Miller that it is a fairly com- 

 mon resident near Newfoundland, Passaic County, and 

 Culver's Gap, Sussex County, is a source of gratification to 

 all local ornithologists. Between these two points is some 

 of the wildest and least known country in New Jersey, and it 

 would not be surprising if it proved to be of wider distribution. 



No diurnal land bird is more easily overlooked than the 

 Pileated Woodpecker, which is unmistakable when seen at all 



