RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 1Q1 



Noise while at work. 



neck down to the back. It is found in Caro- 

 lina, Virginia, and various parts of South Ame- 

 rica; where the Spanish settlers have given it 

 the name of the carpenter, from the noise that it 

 makes with its bill against the trees in the woods, 

 and which is heard at a very great distance; in- 

 deed, when several of them are at work together, 

 the sound is not much unlike that proceeding 

 from woodmen or carpenters. It rattles its bill 

 against the sides of the orifice, till even the 

 woods resound. A bushel of chips, a proof of 

 its labours, is often to be found at the foot of the 

 tree. On examination, its holes have been ge- 

 nerally found of a winding form, the better to 

 protect the nest from the effects of rain. 



We are informed by Catesby, that the Cana- 

 dian Indians make a kind of coronets with the 

 bills of these birds, by setting them in a wreath 

 with the points outwards; arid that for this pur- 

 pose they will purchase them at the rate of two 

 or three buck-skins per bill. 



RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 



THIS species is about nine inches long. The 

 bill is about an inch and a quarter in length, of 

 a lead colour with a black tip. The head and 

 neck are of a most beautiful crimson; the back 

 and wings black ; the rump, breast, and belly* 

 white; and the first ten quills black, the eleventh 



