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BIRDS OF OREGON 



and remain until October (latest date, December i, Lake County). The 

 eggs are laid in May and June. Bendire (1895 a) recorded the first set 

 from Oregon as taken June 3, 1883, from an excavation 50 feet up in a 

 yellow pine tree on the road between Fort Klamath and Crater Lake, and 

 he took other sets during June of that year. Patterson took several sets 

 in Klamath between May 2. and 12.. 



This handsome sapsucker, the males among the most contrastingly 

 marked of Oregon summer birds, is by choice a resident of the open 

 yellow pine forests, where it frequently builds its nest in the pines in 

 preference to the aspens and other deciduous trees chosen by its relatives. 

 It is a quiet bird and somewhat solitary. On April 2.8, 192.6, in the 

 vicinity of Sled Springs Ranger Station on the Wallowa National Forest, 

 Gabrielson observed a dozen or more in a loose flock chasing each other 

 through the forest and uttering shrill cries in a manner entirely unlike 

 their usual decorous behavior. 



Harris's Woodpecker: 



Dryobates villosus harrisi (Audubon) 



DESCRIPTION. " Adult male: Upper parts black, with scarlet nape, white stripe down 

 back, wing coverts and tertials plain black or lightly spotted with white; outer primaries 

 with white spots; outer tail feather plain white; under parts smoky gray or light smoky 

 brown. Adult female: similar, but without scarlet nape. Young: similar, but forehead 

 spotted with white and scarlet of nape extending partly or wholly over crown. 

 Length: 9-10, wing 4.70-5.30, tail 3.zo-3-75, bill 1.1^-1.40." (Bailey) Nest: 

 Usually a freshly constructed hole. Eggs: 3 to 6, white. 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Permanent resident of humid coast belt from British 

 Columbia to northern California. In Oregon: Western part of State from summit of 

 Cascades to Pacific Ocean and south to northern Jackson and Josephine Counties. 

 In these counties, there is an intermingling with next species, though this is the 

 form on coastal slope of Coos and Curry Counties. (See Figure 9.) 



FIGURE 9. Distribution of three forms of woodpeckers in Oregon: i, Harris's Woodpecker 

 (Dry abates villosus harrisi); z, Modoc Woodpecker (D. v. arias'); 3, Rocky Mountain Hairy 

 Woodpecker (D. v. monticola). 



