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 appears to be limited to those mountainous counties which 

 are especially favorable to the more northern species of 

 our Canadian breeders, such as the Winter Wren, Olive-sided 

 Flycatcher, Olive-backed Thrush, and Golden-cio^wned Kinglet, 

 Dr. Warren (Warren's Report) gives it as a regular breeder 

 in portions of Cumberland (?) , Sullivan, and McKean Counties, 

 Mr. Stone, in his "Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey", records it as breeding at Harvey's Lake, Luzerne 

 County, and on North Mountain (Dwight - Auk 1392). From 

 Warren County, Mr. Simpson writes me, "A few pairs breed 

 back in the mountains in slashings and deforested regions 

 but nest high." Personally I have found the Sapsucker 

 breeding in Monroe, Pike, and Wayne Counties but always 

 uncommon and in the vicinity of large dead stubs in slash- 

 ings or swamps. As yet no set of eggs seams to be recorded 

 from this state, tho several nests have been found. 



405a. Phloeotomus pileatus abieticola ( Bangs ) . Northern 



Pileated Woodpecker. 



This magnificent, red-crested, blafek Woodpecker 



was once common thruout the heavily timbered eegion of the 



state. With the eutting of the timber, it has become great- 



is 

 ly reduced until it A now on the verge of extinction and 



apparently United to the wilder, heavily timbered mountain- 

 ous regions, with the exception of portion of Green County, 



