474 Roosevelt Wild Life Bulletin 



Hairy Woodpecker. Dryobatcs villosus villosus (Linn.) 



Length 9.4. Larger than the Downy, and outer tail-quills pure white. 



The Hairy Woodpecker is rather more restricted in its habitat 

 range than the Downy, and probably is slightly less in numbers, for 

 it is not seen quite so often. It inhabits clearings, burns and dry 

 open woods, the margins of the Bog being apparently its most fav- 

 ored habitat. Like the Downy, the Hairy swings into the campus 

 and takes a hurried inspection of a tree trunk, then it swings away 

 to another station, its loud clear call announcing its presence. It 

 always works nervously and impatiently. 



Belted Kingfisher. Ceryle alcyon alcyon (Linn.) 



Length 13. Blue and white; crested; a gray band across breast. The 

 female has a chestnut band across belly and sides. 



The Kingfisher is a frequenter of lakes and ponds wherever there 

 are small fish for its food and suitably steep shores of sand or dirt 

 in which it can nest. Along the brooks, also, where there are quiet 

 pools containing small fry and convenient perching sites, the King- 

 fisher establishes a summer home. As a rule the pairs of Kingfishers 

 are well distributed, for one family requires a considerable dis- 

 tance of shoreline for its foraging, and an adult often flies quite 

 a distance along a water margin in making desirable captures. It 

 is a noisy fisherman, and its loud cries are uttered most commonly 

 after it has made a dive and flies to another station. 



* Great Horned Owl. Bubo virginianus virginianus (Gmel.) 

 The Great Horned Owl was not seen by me at Cranberry Lake, 

 but it was frequently startled by the surveying parties in the deeper 

 woods, generally in the vicinity of a lake or stream, or in the bog 

 forests. The regular swamp woods is a favorite resort of this 

 wilderness freebooter, and there it sleeps in seclusion during the 

 day and thence makes its nightly forays. 



Of the owls noted elsewhere in the state of New York I failed 

 to find at Cranberry Lake the Saw-whet, Barred, Long-eared or 

 Screech Owl. Reasons for their absence have been discussed else- 

 where in this report. 



Bald Eagle. H cilice etus leucocephalus leucocephalus (Linn.) 



A Bald Eagle, an adult with a fine white head, lived all summer 

 along the shores between Barber Point and Wanakena. Sometimes 

 it was seen perched in a dead tree at the water's edge, and at other 

 times it would be flapping slowly over the lake, or else soaring high 

 above it and the surrounding mountains. 



Broad-winged Hawk. Butco platypterus (Vieill.) 



The Broad-winged Hawk was seen several times at Cranberry 

 Lake. One, in juvenile plumage, on August 16, alighted in a tall 

 dead tree, where it preened and sunned itself for many minutes, 

 apparently unconcerned about its surroundings. A pair of Yellow- 



