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found and its breeding is still open to question. Omaha, Peru, West 

 Point — in summer. Migrator}^ at Lincoln. 



405. Ceophlceus pileatus abieticola Bangs — Northern Pileated Wood- 



pecker. 

 This magnificent woodpecker was formerly not uncommon in the 

 more heavily wooded portions of the Missouri bottoms. Both L. 

 Skow and Bruner have seen it in the vicinity of Rockport, and Bruner 

 also found it not rare about Tekamah years ago. The last Nebraska 

 record is I. S. Trostler's, from near Omaha, May 20, 1895, a bird seen. 

 It probably used to breed in these regions, for there have been noted 

 in the past numerous indications of what was undoubtedly the work of 

 this bird in building its nesting sites. If now present at all it is very 

 rare. The Peru record of the "Ivory-billed" refers to this species. 



406. *Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus) — Red-headed Woodpecker. 



Common throughout the whole state. Locally abundant and in- 

 creasing in numbers. It winters but is rare at this season, in the 

 southern part of the state, the bulk appearing about the first of May 

 and remaining till late in October. Breeding throughout its range. 



408. *Asyndesmus torquatus (Wilson) — Lewis Woodpecker. 



Common summer resident and breeder in the pine-covered canyon 

 districts of Sioux, Dawes, northern Sheridan, and Scott's Bluff counties; 

 in winter east to the eastern limits of the pines or about Long Pine 

 and Valentine. 



409. *Centurus carolinus (Linnaeus) — Red-bellied Woodpecker. 



Found locally in eastern Nebraska, especially southward; breed- 

 ing uncommonly and rarely remaining in winter. Omaha, Nebraska 

 City, Lincoln, Beatrice, West Point. Bruner reports seeing a strag- 

 gler once in Monroe canyon, Sioux county. 



412a. *Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs — Northern Flicker. 



Common all over the state, abundant eastward, breeding through- 

 out, and only in part migratory. 



413. *Colaptes cafer collaris (Vigors) — Red-shafted Flicker. 



A common resident over the entire state, abundant westward, 

 very common eastward in winter but becoming much less so in sum- 

 mer. Sioux and Cherry counties, Lincoln, Beatrice, Omaha. 



EXTRALIMITAL: It is barely possible that the American Three- 

 toed Woodpecker, 401. P. americanus Brehm, may reach our state in 

 winter very rarely, but there is no record as yet. 402a. S. v. nuchalis 

 Baird, the Red-naped Sapsucker, is the western variety of the Yel- 

 low-bellied Sapsucker. It is common in eastern Colorado and 

 Wyoming and has been taken in western Kansas, so may be 

 expected in western Nebraska also. Williamson Sapsucker, 404. S. 

 thyroideus (Cassin), is common in both Colorado and Wyoming, 



