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405 Phloeotomus pileatus abieticola (Bangs). 

 Northern Pileated Woodpecker. 



Adult male. Length, 17-19. Wing, 9-10. Above, blackish-brown; head 

 strongly crested, entirely scarlet above, a narrow white line bordering the crest 

 below, and another white stripe from the nostril down the side of the neck ; a 

 scarlet patch at the base of the bill ; throat, white ; rest of under parts, brown ; 

 basal half of wing feathers, white, which is very conspicuous in flight. 



Adult female. Similar, but red restricted to the hind part of the crest. 



Nest in a tree trunk ; eggs, white, three to six, 1.30 x 1. 



Rare or accidental visitant; possibly more regular in the extreme 

 northwestern part of the State. Formerly generally distributed. 



This splendid Woodpecker disappears everywhere with the destruc- 

 tion of the forest,, and although the southern part of the State con- 

 tains tracts wild enough for his liking, the trees there are now too 

 small for his needs. Two specimens., taken in Cape May county by 

 Dr. W. L. Abbott, November 7th, 1878, and December 31st, 1878, are 

 in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1 

 and Mr. Chapman 2 records one taken at Englewood in 1885 by Mr. 

 Jacob Ullrich. 2 Thurber records one taken at Mountville, Morris 

 county, and Messrs. H. G. Parker 3 and C. S. Shick 4 saw one or two on 

 Seven Mile Beach in 1886. On March 25th, 1908, Mr. George S. 

 Morris saw one of these birds on the Egg Harbor River, above May's 

 Landing, which is our latest New Jersey record. In Captain Bendire's 

 Life Histories of N. A. Birds, Vol. 2, p. 107, is a. record of a nest on 

 West Creek, Cumberland county, which was found by Messrs. M. L. C. 

 Wilde and J. Harris Reed, 5 June 4th, 1893. It contained young. 



1 Stone, Auk, 1894, p. 137. 



2 Auk, 1889, p. 303. 



3 O. and O., XI., p. 140. 



4 Bay State Orn., I., No. 2, p. 13. 



5 See, also, Wilde, Atlantic Slope Nat., I., p. 27. 



