64 0. H. Merriam Birds of Connecticut. 



November, 1876; and " Mr. Wm. King took a specimen, several years 

 ago, at Suffield, Conn."* No longer ago than 1 839, Peabody gave it 

 as resident in Massachusetts, where it was " not uncommon in the 

 woodlands."! 



137. PiCTlS villoSUS Linne. Hairy Woodpecker. 



Resident, but not common. Have taken four specimens and seen 

 several others in the immediate vicinity of New Haven. Found 

 chiefly in winter. Mr. Coe tells me that it is quite common about 

 Portland, Conn. 



138. PicllS pubescens Linne. Downy Woodpecker. 



A common resident ; found everywhere except in open fields 

 devoid of stumps and fences. 



139. Picoides arcticus (Swainson) Gray. Black-backed Three-toed Wood- 



pecker. 



A rare winter visitor from the North. In the Museum at Middle- 

 town is a specimen, from the Shurtleff Collection, taken at Simsbury, 

 Conn., in 1860. Dr. Wood has also taken it at East Windsor Hill, 

 Conn. 



140. SphyrapicilS varius (Linne) Baird. Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. 



Rare about New Haven. Have seen but four individuals (Sept. 

 28, and Oct. 2, 1875, and March 30, and May 3, 1876). Mr. J. N. 

 Clark finds it to be " abundant in fall" at Saybrook.J Linsley gave 

 it from New London, Conn. It is rare about Portland, Conn., as I 

 am informed by Messrs. Coe and Sage. Mr. Thos. Osborne tells me 

 that they were quite common about New Haven last fall (1876) and 

 that he secured four specimens. Mr. Grinnell says that it is not 

 uncommon about Milford, Conn., in fall ; and Mr. J. N. Clark, of 

 Saybrook, writes me that he has observed it to be " very common 

 both in spring and fall," but that he " never saw it after April till 

 autumn." 



Though most Woodpeckers are residents where they are found at 



* MS. notes of Erwin I. Shores. 



j- Peabody' s Report on the Ornithology of Mass., p. 334. 1839. 



\ Am. Nat., vol. vii, No. 11, p. 693. Nov., 1873. 



