Annotated List of Species 'i n 



207. Picoides americanus Brehm. American Three-toed 

 Woodpecker. 



An extremely rare winter visitant from the nortli. The records 

 are : Boston Market, winter of 1836 ; ' Lytin^ a pair taken in the 

 winter of 1860-61, and a female taken also in the same year ; ^ 

 Fitchburg, Mr. H. L. Piper informs us that he shot a specimen in 

 a dense swamp about 1895. 



208. Picoides arcticus (Swains.). Arctic Three-toed 

 Woodpecker. 



A very rare late autumn and winter visitant from the north. 

 It has been recorded at the following localities : Attleboro, Bev- 

 erley, Dprchester, Essex County, Holbrook, Hyde Park, Lynn, 

 Middlesex County, Milton, Mount Nonotuck, Plymouth, Sher- 

 bourne, Sudbury, Terapleton, Westfield, West Medford, Winch- 

 endon, Woburn. In the winter of i86o-'6i a large flight of 

 .these birds occurred, and at Lynn they were " actually abundant."* 



(Last of September) October 16 to January 2 i ; (" second Sat- 

 urday in August") . 



Bristol County: "One record, Attleboro." Essex County: "Fall. 

 Very rare." Springfield : " Rare winter resident." Wellesley : " Very 

 rare fall and winter visitant.'' 



209. Ceophloeus pileatus abieticola Bangs. iSToRTHERN 

 Pileated Woodpecker. 



A very rare permanent resident in Berkshire, Hampden and 

 northern Worcester Counties. Casual elsewhere in the State, 

 having been noted at Manchester in December, 1885, Boston 

 Highlands, July, 1883, Ashfield in August and October, 1886, 

 Mount Toby in May, 1892, Sherbourne in 1894, and in Plymouth, 

 fresh " peck-holes " were seen in a heavy cedar swamp in 1896. 

 According to Mr. F. H. Kennard, two birds, apparently of this 

 species, were seen momentarily in Newton in 1890. 



Amherst:. " Formerly occurred." Berkshire: "Very rare permanent 

 resident." Springfield: "A rare resident." Templeton : "A winter 



1 Baird, Brewer, & Ridgway ; Land Birds, Vol. II, 1874, p. 534. 

 "Allen ; Amer. Nat., Vol. Ill, No. 11, Jan., 1870,'?. 572, p. 19 of separate, 

 and * Brewster; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. VIII, No. 2, Apr., 1882, p. 122. 



