118 FAUXA OF XEW EXGL.IXD. 



PICI. 



PICID.IE. 



Mass. — Common resident, most conspicuous in fall and winter. 

 Eggs, May 20- June 21. 



R. I. — Uncommon summer and common winter resident. Eggs, 

 May 12-25. 



Coxx. — Common resident. 



224. PicoiDES ARCTicus (Swainson) Gray. 



Arctic three-toed woodpecker; Black-backed three-toed wood- 

 pecker. 



Picus (A'pternus) arcticus Swains., in Swains, and Richardson, 

 Fauna Boreali-Amer., 1831, vol. 2, p. .313, pi. 57. "xear the 



SOURCES OF THE ATHABASCA RiVER, LAT. 57°." Egg, Capcn, 



1886, pi. 14, fig. 11. 



Evergreen forests; nests in holes excavated in dead trees. 



Me. — Uncommon winter visitor, and in northern and western 

 counties, rare resident. Eggs, ]May 23. 



N. H.— Rare resident above 3000 ft. in White Mts., south to ]Mt. 

 Passaconaway and possibly on Mt. ^Nlonadnock (Keene, breeding), 

 elsewhere rare visitor. 



Vt. — Rare resident in northern part and on higher peaks 

 (nests at Burlington, Lunenburg, Sherburne, Pico Peak, etc.); 

 occasional ^dsitor to lower coimtry in fall and winter. Eggs, 

 May 29, June 1. 



Mass. — Occasional fall and winter visitor. (Late Sept.) 

 Oct. 16-April 27 (July, 1888, Boxford; Aug. 11, 1883, Dorchester). 



Coxx. — Rare winter visitor: East AYindsor Hill; Simsbury, 

 1860. 



225. PicoiDES AMERic.AX^rs Brehm. 



American three-toed woodpecker; Banded-backed woodpecker; 

 Ladder-backed woodpecker. 



Picoides americana Brehm, Handb. d. naturgesch. aller vogel 

 Deutschl., 1831, p. 195. "A.meriic.v." 



