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Asyndesmus lewisi. Lewis's Woodpecker. 



Resident ; common in summer, only occasionally seen in 

 winter. The spring migrants arrive the middle or latter part 

 of April, and the birds remain until the middle of November, 

 at least at times. 



While this species, is noted above as a resident, it is much 

 more abundant in summer than in winter, and very probably 

 many winters none stay in the County. January 4, 1907, half 

 a dozen or more were seen in the bluffs north of Colorado 

 Springs, but this was a very mild winter. While it is found 

 over most of the County where there are trees from about 

 8,000 feet down, yet probably in the breeding season most, if 

 not all, are found in the yellow pines, though there are also 

 some in the cottonwoods along the lower streams. It, however, 

 leaves the pines to some extent when the young are fledged, 

 and scatters over the County, and is sometimes seen in family 

 parties on the plains at a considerable distance from the moun- 

 tains. August 2 and 3, 1909, they were common in the Foun- 

 tain Valley from the Pueblo County line north to Colorado 

 Springs. 



While on the Divide near Peyton in July, 1897, Aiken" 

 noted that this bird affected the tallest pine trees on the ridges 

 and was continually taking flights from the top of one tree 

 to another, often crossing ravines or going to a considerable 

 distance and high in the air. They sometimes ascend verti- 

 cally in the air 50 or 60 feet, perhaps to catch an insect, and 

 then sail off to a tree top two or three hundred yards away. 



Centurus carolinus. Red-bellied Woodpecker. 



Rare; taken but once in El Paso County, by Aiken at 

 Fountain, in 1873. 



Colaptes cafer coUaris. Red-shafted Flicker. 

 Resident; common.. 



