572 NOTES ON SOME OF THE 



Island and Eastern Connecticut than it is in Eastern Massa- 

 chusetts. 



PILEATED WOODPECKER. "Loo COCK." Hylotomus pi- 

 leatus Baird. The capture here of a bird so nearly extir- 

 pated in most parts of Massachusetts as is this, is a fact 

 of interest. Mr. J. G. Scott informs me that he has taken 

 three specimens near Westfield. Dr. Wood wrote me in 

 1864 that one was killed about five years before at East 

 Windsor Hill, and that he had also seen it about twenty 

 miles to the westward of this locality. 



BLACK-BACKED THREE-TOED WOODPECKER. Picoides arc- 

 ticus Gray. Mr. Scott took two specimens, male and female, 

 of this northern species at Westfield in 1867. 



BANDED THREE-TOED WOODPECKER. Picoides hirsutus 

 Gray. I learn from Mr. George O. Welch, of Lynn, that he 

 took a pair of these birds some years since not far from that 

 town. Dr. Brewer also gave it in his additions to the "Cata- 

 logue of the birds of the state" given by Dr. Hitchcock,* 

 but it has not usually been numbered among the birds of the 

 state, and doubtless occurs only as an accidental winter 

 visitor. 



YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. Empidonax flaviventris 

 Baird. As remarked by Dr. Cones in his "List of the Birds 

 of New England," this species is probably less rare than the 

 collectors usually suppose. It seems to prefer woods and 

 thickets, and its close resemblance to E. minimus when a 

 few yards distant tends to prevent its more frequent capture. 

 I generally meet with quite a number each year in May, 

 sometimes several in a single excursion. Mr. Maynard 

 informs me that he took eight specimens in a few hours May 

 31st, the present year. It has been observed in the breeding 

 season as far south as Washington, D. C., by Dr. Cones. 



VARIED THRUSH. Tardus ncevius Gmelin. As already 

 recorded in Dr. Coues "Addenda," this western species has 

 at last been taken in Massachusetts, a specimen having been 



* Jour. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. i, p. 437. 



