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 where a few pairs still linger along the West Virginia line. 

 During the past five years, I have found it still breeding 

 yearly in sections of Pike, Wayne, Center, Huntingdon, 

 Clinton, and Warren Counties, and it still "breeds more or 

 less rarely in most of the mountain counties. Years ago, 

 Mr. J. Warren Jacobs took several sets of this bird in 

 Green County, a set of three egs in his collection being 

 taken there May 21, 1887, and Mr. Dickey tells me that they 

 still breed there. In Warren County, Mr Simpson finds them 

 breeding regularly during the fir3t week in May, but the 

 nests are! high and hard to reach. 



406. Melanerpes erythrocephalus ( Linn . ) . Red-headed Wood- 

 pecker. 



Of all our Wddopeckers, the Red-headed seems to 

 have the most peculiar habits in Pennsylvania. Usually a 

 bird of the Carolinian fauna and the open farming country, 

 it is gradually replacing the Pileated in many of the north- 

 ern counties and seems particularly adapted to fit itself * 

 to any circumstance. About Philadelphia, it is a somewhat 



uncommon bird but apparently increasing during the last few 



of 

 years, and at present I know of a numb er A ne sting places 



within twelve miles of the city. It is fairly common in 



Green County and one of the most abundant birds in Center 



County. In the northern tier, it is rather uncommon, but is 



