ffOODPBOKJ 



Unt resemblance t.. th<> mew .if tin- Catbird" (Hull. Nutt. <irn. Club, 



Tin- Sap-ucker feeds largely <>n tin- juices of trees, which it obtains 

 l.y informing the bark, o Auk, viii, IH'Jl, p. i">6; ix, 1882, 



p. 1 



405. Ccophlccus pileatua Linn.), 1'n t \oi. \\ ....I.I-K. KEK. Ad. 6. 

 I p|i r part.. Ma.-ki.h tn-cmi.; win.!.- tup f the head searlct, tin; tValhem 



. ',ed in form it iT<.t ; a narrow white strii*- Ixmleriiig this r.^t ... ].n 



. i>"iii tin- i'u. .!.. i;i; .uiii_' ut the notttril and 



pawing down the .idi . nf tlie in .-k to tin- shoulders is tinged with yrllnw 



i U white liai-k iif tin- r\ ; it is .M-pnrut-l I'min tin- white 



tlmmt l>y a M-nrlct stri|H.' at the l>aM- <!' tin- IMVMT uiuinlilili-; l>u>ul hulf'.t' the 



winif tVutluTs white; uiii|-r parts J'u>eiiii-<, the leathers sometime* lightly 



in.iru'iii'-il with white; dill IHTII enlur. .!/. v. Similar, luit without red on 



tlie liifi- part "t' the <TV\II or at tlie liast- of the lower muinlilile. L., 17"00; 



'. - Formerly whole wi.le.l re/ii-n "I" .North America; now rare or 

 %xtiq>ate<l in the. more thiekly settled purUt of the Ka.sttni States." 

 Miftoii, rare 1'. K. 

 tweiit\-ri\c to i-ighty feet from tlie ground. /.V/j/*, four to MX, 1-30 



This .|H -c -ie- j. ciiiiimoii only in tlio wilder parts <f its range. In 

 the hiimin<K-ks ami C\|>P -~ >vMiinp-< nf I'Moridu it (xviirs in numbers. 

 There, cDiitniry ti tin- experience >f Audtibon, 1 found it by no means 

 !i wiltl liird. Indeed, Flicker> were nmre diflicult to .-ipproach. < Mi 

 theSuwai Uiver. in .March. I have called these birds to me by -im- 

 ply clapping my slightly closed palms, making a sound in imitation 

 of their tapping on a resonant, limb. 



The flight of thN species is rather slow, but usually direct, not 

 undulating, as in nm-t Wood|>eekers. When under way the white 

 markings of the wings show conspicuously. Their usual call-note is a 

 sonorous ri." related rather slowly many times, ^u^^e--t ing 



a somewhat similar call i>f the Flicker's, hike the Flicker, they have 

 also a trirh, ir note uttered when two birds ciinie together. 



406. Melanerpcserythrocephalua / KK MK\I>KI>\V 



PKI-KEK. .(/. Head. tii-k, thmat. and up]>T Kreast dei-ji red; U]I|HT l>aek. 

 primaries, lnwei* of tin wi-oiidarie*, and w in/ e.,vcit.s Muish Mnek ; end half 



rump, and tipjM-r tail-eoverts w hite ; tail lilaek. the feath- 

 er* morv or lew tip|-d or margined with white; lower lirea>t and U-lly white, 

 the middle of the latter ireiierully tiiiu'ed with n-tldi.sh. Im. Kel hi'Atl and 

 I I iy mixed irruyish IIMWII and funeou-t ; up|H>r back 



bluish black, barred with ushy ; primaries and winu'-eovert.-. l>la.-k ; end half 

 of the secondaries irregularly harm! with Klaek ; tail Maek, trenerally tip]tl 

 with white: -r and Mly white, mro or lew streaked or spotted 



with futons 1. 1'., 3-30; B., 1-17. 



