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THE BIRDS OF WLSCOXSIX. 
V. Ogden and Dr. E. Copeland have taken two specimens in 
Iron County, a male and a female, taken, respectively, Sept. 30 
and Sept. 25, 1808, and preserved in the collection of E. Cope- 
land and H. Rnssel at .Milwaukee; and it has been reported 
from the upper peninsula of Michigan by Air. H. Nehrling. 
It is certainly a decidedly rare bird in central or southern 
Wisconsin at the present day, but doubtless occurs each winter 
in the extreme northern pine woods. 
Spliyrapieus varitis (Linn. J. YELLOW -BELLIED S APSICKER. 
Abundant migrant and regular summer resident. Arrives 
in southern Wisconsin from the last of March, through the 
month of April. In autumn the migration extends from Sep- 
tember 15 to October 15. Summer resident from near, the 
southern tier of counties northward, sparingly southward and 
more commonly farther north. Breeds in considerable num- 
bers about Lake Koshkonong, always in "bottom land" timber, 
maple, elm and ash, usually, if not always, excavating a cavity 
in a green tree. Spring males show a great variation in the 
amount and distribution of the red, both on throat and head. 
Apparently has not decreased in numbers during the past 
thirty-five years. 
( eoplilfpus pileatns abietieola Bangs. NORTHERN PILEATED 
WOODPECKER. 
With the disappearance of heavy timber this species has 
gradually been driven from sections where it was formerly 
common. Going back to 1870 and earlier, it was not at all an 
uncommon bird in Bark River woods in Jefferson County, 
where it bred regularly as late as 1X12, and sparingly even later. 
Xo doubt the same thing is true of all the once heavily timbered 
sections of the state. One was shot in Jefferson county in 
1877, in late fall, the last record for the section. One was seen 
in Walworth County in May. 1889. In the central and northern 
parts of the state it is still fairly common, especially in the 
heavily timbered hardwood districts. Probably resident where- 
ever found, though individuals sometimes wander considerable 
distances out of their usual range. We received a specimen in 
October, 1898, which had been killed by a boy with a "sling- 
shot" in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Several years ago a specimen 
was taken alive in a room of the upper story of a house in 
Milwaukee. It had apparently crawled in at the open window. 
Two specimens have been picked up on the lake shore at 
