18 BIRDS OF MADISON COUNTY 



Family ALCEDINIDAE. (Kingfishers.} 



81. (390) Ceryle alcyon (Linn.). 



Belted kingfisher. 



Very common summer resident. Arrives about 

 April 15, departs about October 20. Begins nest building about 

 the first of May. Two or three excavations are generally made in 

 sand and gravel banks, also in fresh exposures of soil before one is 

 chosen for the deposition of the six or seven white eggs. 



Order PICI. ( Woodpeckers, etc.) 

 Family PICIDAE. (Woodpeckers.) 



82. (393) Dryobates villosus (Linn.) 



Hairy woodpecker. 



Very common resident. Breeds. 



83. (394c) Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swains. ) 



Downy woodpecker. 



Very common resident. Breeds. 



84. (402) Sphyrapicus varius (Linn.) 



Yellow-bellied sapsucker. 



Very common transient visitant. Arrives about 

 April 20th. Departs about May 10th. 



85. (405a) Ceophloeus pileatus abieticola Bangs. 



Northern pileated woodpecker. 



Rare. One male taken in the Nine-mile Swamp east 

 of Hamilton during the fall of 1897. Now in Dr. H. S. Gardiner's 

 collection, Hamilton, N. Y. 



86. (406) Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linn.) 



Red-headed woodpecker. 



Common summer resident. Breeds. One occasion- 

 ally winters. 



