BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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fruits, such as wild grapes, cedar berries, etc. In the winter months I 

 have seen these woodpeckers, also Tufted Titmice and White-bellied 

 Nuthatches, feed with apparent relish on pieces of fat beef and pork, 

 which had been suspended in trees or nailed to grape-arbors for their 

 benefit. The kernels of walnuts, shell-barks and other nuts that I have 

 placed in trees were likewise eaten by both the woodpecker and nut- 

 hatch. 



The stomach contents of ten Downy Woodpeckers taken in Pennsylva- 

 nia, and examined by the author and Mr. Benjamin M. Everhart, of 

 West Chester, are given in the following- table : 



Dryobates borealis (VIEILL.). 



Red-cockaded Woodpecker. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Length 7| to 8 inches; extent about 14; male has narrow red streak, mostly con- 

 cealed by black feathers above, on each side of occiput and above the silky-white 

 spaces that extend from under and back of eyes ; feathers on sides of lower mandi- 

 ble, those about nostrils, chin, throat, middle of breast and central part of abdomen, 

 also feathers about eye, (except in front) sides of head and neck, white, purest about 

 head. A black streak, connecting with black lores, runs backward under the showy 

 white cheek patch; top of head, neck behind and two central tail leathers, black ; 

 other feathers in middle part of tail, black, with white bars, and the outer tail 

 feathers are white, barred especially on inner webs with black ; back barred with 

 black and white ; wings brownish, barred with white ; iris brown ; bill and legs 

 (dried skin) blackish. The female has no red stripes on head. 



Habitat. Southeastern United States, from New Jersey (at least formerly), Ten- 

 nessee, and Indian Territory south to eastern Texas and the Gulf coast 



The Red-cockaded Woodpecker, abundant in the open pine woods of 

 Florida, where it is called " Sapsucker " by some, and by others " Pine- 

 bark Woodpecker," I have never observed in this state. Reports 

 seventy odd in number which have been sent to me by naturalists and 

 collectors of all parts of the state, fail to show that it occurs anywhere 

 in our commonwealth. Dr. Ezra Michener, in his catalogue of Chester 

 County Birds, published in 1863, writes : " Red-cockaded Woodpecker 

 accidental ; very rare." Thos. G. Gentry (Life Histories of Birds), re- 

 ferring to this species says: " That it is a rare visitant in eastern Penn- 

 sylvania cannot be doubted, as an individual was taken a few years 

 since, and is now deposited with the writer. This specimen was shot 

 in Delaware county, just beyond the southern border of Philadelphia." 



