Utter by the white or dull buff nasal tufts and the markings of the tail feathers. 

 The bird is of the same size as the Downy Woodpecker of the Eastern States, and has 

 many of its characteristics, familiarly searching the orchards, stumps of trees and 

 fence rails for insects and their larvae. Mr. Walter E. Bryant found a nest of this 

 species on Mt Diablo-. California, May 29, 1880. It was in a cavity picked between 

 <>dy and the bark of an oak stump, fifteen feet from the ground. The opening 

 was very difficult to find. The male bird was sitting, and flew from the stump as Mr. 

 Bryant approached, and he was obliged to wait for its return before the entrance 

 could be located. The cavity was about twelve inches deep and four inches inside 

 diameter; diameter of the entrance was about one inch and a half. The nest con- 

 tained four glistening, white eggs; their sizes being as follows: 24x17.5, 23x17, 



397 HOME or NUTTALL'B WOODPECKER (From Ike Nidologitt), 



28x17.5, 23.5x.17 millimeters.* Mr. B. T. Gault on April 23, 1883, obtained a set of six 

 eggs of thin species from a cavity in the main trunk of an elder bush or tree in the 

 San Bernardin* Notwithstanding various loud demonstrations tapping on 



ITM trunk and chopping into the cavity with a hatchet the female bird did imt 

 leave the nest, and when taken out appeared stupefied. The nest was about five kmi 

 a half feet from the ground, was very nearly a foot deep and about five inches wide; 



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