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*150- Dryobates pubescens (Linn.}. DOWNY WOODPECKER. 



Head of Downy Woodpecker, nat. s\z2. 



Common resident; more numerous than the species last mentioned and more 

 sociable, being found in company with many other species of birds in winter, 

 wandering through the woods and thickets and orchards. Also more numerous in 

 the southern part of the State, at leapt during fall, winter and spring. Called 

 "Sapsucker" and "Little Spotted Woodpecker." 



GENUS SPHYRAPICUS BATED. 

 *151. Sphyrapicus varius (Linn.). YELLOW-BKLLIED WOODPECKER. 



Head of Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, nat. size. 



Common migrant; winter resident in some numbers southward; summer resi- 

 dent locally northward. It has been reported breeding in the following counties: 

 -Carroll (Evermann), Laporte (H. P. Coburn), Marion (Hay), Dekalb (Hine), 

 Starke English Lake, breeding June 3, 1888 (Deane). I do not know of their 

 breeding in the southern part of the State. In Franklin County I have records 

 running from September 24 to April 30. This is the true Sapsucker, and is gener- 

 ally known as that or "Yellow-bellied Sapsucker." They do great damage in 

 spring to the fruit and shade trees, especially the sugar maple, Acer saccharinum 

 (Wang.) They perforate the bark with holes arranged in bands or spirals about 

 the trunk of the tree or larger limbs, from which the sap sometimes flows in 

 streams. I have counted six of these birds on a dozen sugar maples in front of 

 one lot in my own town. In winter they are especially severe on coniferous trees. 



