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based on a specimen taken at Hoboken, N. J. (Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 

 Nat. Hist., VIII, 1866, p. 291). 



*ip3. Sphyrapicus varius (Linn ). YELLOW-BELLIED WOOD- 

 PECKER. (402.) Breeds from Massachusetts northward, and win- 

 ters from Virginia to Central America. It is here a common 

 spring and fall migrant. 



194. Ceophlceus pileatus (Linn.}. PILEATED WOODPECKER. 

 (405.) "Formerly whole wooded region of North America ; now 

 rare or extirpated in the more thickly settled parts of the Eastern 

 States." This large Woodpecker occurs near New York only as a 

 rare straggler. 



*I95. Melanerpes erythrocepha- 



lus (Linn.}. RED-HEADEDWOODPECKER. 

 (406.) Eastern North America, breed- 

 ing from Florida to northern New York 

 and Manitoba, and wintering from Vir- 

 ginia southward, and occasionally far- 

 ther north. With us a summer resi- 

 dent of local distribution and a not 

 uncommon, and sometimes abundant 

 migrant. 



196. Melanerpes carolinus 



(Linn.}. RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER. 

 (409.) Eastern United States, breed- 

 ing from Florida to Virginia and, in 

 the interior, to Ontario and southern 

 Dakota, occasionally strays to Massa- 

 chusetts ; winters from southern Ohio 

 southward. 



Giraud speaks of this bird as breeding on Long Island but 

 it now occurs here only rarely and irregularly. 



*I97. Colaptes auratus (Linn}. FLICKER ; HIGH-HOLE ; 

 CLAPE. (412.) North America, west to the eastern slope of the 

 Rocky Mountains and Alaska ; breeds throughout its range, and 

 winters from Illinois and southern New York southward. Our 

 commonest Woodpecker. It is resident, but is much more com- 

 mon in the summer than in the winter. 



FIG. ii. RED-HEADED 

 WOODPECKER. 



