830 REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



in 1810, to write the beautiful tribute to it, beginning, "Majestic 

 bird! the broad Ohio knows its presence well/' 



Its white bill has given it the local name of "White-billed Log- 

 cock/' or "White-billed Woodcock," to distinguish it from the "Pi- 

 leated Woodpecker/' 



There have been reports of its occurrence in this State in recent 

 years, but I have not been able to verify them. 



(See Hasbrouck, The Auk, Vol. VIII., 1891, pp. 174-186. Also 

 Maurice Thompson, "A Red-headed Family/') 



93. GKNUS DRYOBATES BOIE. 



a 1 . Wing 4.25 or more; outer tail feathers white. D. villosus (Linn.). 160 

 a 2 . Wing under 4.25; outer tail feathers barred with black. 



D. pubescens (Linn.). 161 



*160. (393). Dryobates villosus (LINN.). 



Hairy Woodpecker. 



Adult Male. Above, black, with a long white stripe down middle 

 of the back; sides of head, with white stripes; with a red band 

 across the back of head; the wing coverts and quills with white spots; 

 below, whitish; outside tail feathers, white; others, black, or black and 

 white. Adult Female. Similar, but lacking the red on head. Im- 

 mature. With the crown more or less red or yellow. 



Length, 8.50-9.00; wing, 4.50-5.00; tail, 3.10-3.60. 



RANGE. Eastern United States and South Atlantic and Gulf 

 States; north to Nova Scotia, Quebec and Manitoba; west to Montana, 

 Wyoming, Kansas and eastern Texas. Resident throughout most of its 

 range. 



Nest, an excavation in dead or dying tree. Eggs, 3-5; glossy white; 

 .93 by .71. 



Common resident; more numerous southward in fall, winter and 

 spring. Breeds. Not as numerous as the next species, which is 

 smaller and more sociable, but almost its exact pattern in coloration. 

 Sometimes found about orchards and lawns, and other rather open 

 places, though it frequents the woodland, where it generally nests. It 

 is especially active in its warfare upon insects. Both this Woodpecker 

 and the next have stiff, pointed tongues, sharply barbed for sticking 

 and extracting insects; they are also supplied with a sticky secretion, 

 which assists them in gathering food. They live largely upon the 

 larvae that bore in the wood or burrow beneath the bark of trees, and 

 upon ants. One instance is recorded of their catching and storing 

 Colorado Potato Beetles. They also eat the fruits of dog-wood, Vir- 



