RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 
(MW. erythroce’phalus. ) 
RI-COLOR, with ‘‘red, white and blue.’”’ Back, wings 
and tail glossy blue black. Tail coverts, wing coverts, 
and under parts white. Head, neck and fore-breast 
crimson, bordered with black where adjoining the white. 
Red feathers stiffsh and somewhat bristly. Gloss is some- 
times green instead of blue. Length eight to nine inches. 
Young are gray where the old are red. Eastern United 
States to Rocky Mountains. Migratory in some sections. Nest 
anywhere in woods, preferably in top of blasted tree. Eggs five 
or six, glossy and spheroidal. 
Feeds on acorns, nuts, berries, and various fruits as well as 
insects. 
“Our ‘table’ gives a scientific description of the 
Red-headed Woodpecker only, although we might find 
much to talk about in the Woodpecker family. This 
bird does not seem to care much for travel, and some 
winters he does not go south at all. He is a carpenter, 
and you can hear the tap of his little hammer if you 
will listen at the right time, and you may see his chips, 
that look like sawdust, where he has been building his 
house in the side of an old tree or high up on a tele- 
graph pole. You can see only the circular door, but 
inside the house is shaped like a pear, and extends 
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