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SUMMER BIRDS. 
entrance of the valley, but rarely to be heard over five miles within. 
Mr. Burroughs reports it as common just out of the mountains. 
Chordediles popetue (Vieill.) Baird. Night-hawk. 
Several times noticed. 
FAMILY PICIDSE: WOODPECKERS. 
It would be idle to speculate on the possible occurrence in the Cats- 
kill Mountains of either of the Three-toed Woodpeckers. 
Picus villosus L. Hairy Woodpecker. 
Not uncommon. Two were shot near the top of Slide Mountain 
showing on the crown the red feathering of the young of the year; 
though scarcely appreciable in the female, this was conspicuous in 
the male bird. Another bird ol the year was without indication of 
this character. 
Picus pubescens L. Downy Woodpecker. 
Though several times noticed in the neighborhood of Pine Hill, 
this common bird was not elsewhere observed. 
Sphyropicus varius (L.) Baird. Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. 
Rather common about the head of the valley, often descending close 
to the ground on small trees and even bushes, and once noticed on 
a prostrate log. Mr. Pearsall discovered a nest of the species, “ about 
twelve feet from the ground in an immense dead pine stub,” which 
contained six fresh eggs, June 1. “ The aperture was so small that 
had I not witnessed the female bird go through, I should have thought 
it impossible for her to do so.” For an account of another instance 
of this bird breeding in the Catskills, see “ Wake Robin,” pp. 107-8. 
Hylotomus pileatus (L.) Baird. Pileated Woodpecker. 
With regard to this species Mr. Burroughs writes me : “ I spent 
part of last August [1881 ) near the head of Dry Brook in the south- 
ern Catskills. 1 there saw and heard the Pileated Woodpecker. Last 
fall a fox-hunter of my acquaintance shot one in Roxbury, my native 
town.” Mr. Pearsall writes of a pair of these birds which he ob- 
served on a mountain slope falling into the Big Indian Valley at a 
point about halfway through its course, -that : “ One alighted about 
two hundred feet from me in a live tree whose top was blasted. The 
pair were nesting on the slope I am fully convinced.” James W. 
Dutcher — guide, whose dwelling is directly across the valley from 
the point where these observations were made, stated that previous 
to this time the pair had been very noisy and he had heard them 
through the spring. 
