TREKS ATTACKED BY RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER. 51 
2-3. 1900. and found many branches pecked on a number of willows. 
Mrs. Bailey (see bibliography), referring to the same instance, de- 
scribes "lengthwise strips of bark . . . cut off. leaving fiddle- 
strings between." (See PI. V. fig. 4.) ■ 
Willow (species not given). — A specimen of willow collected by 
Dr. A. K. Fisher at Tillamook. Oreg.. shows almost all the bark 
removed from a fair-sized sapling. 
THE WAXXTTS (jUGLAXDACET) . 
English walnut (Juglans regia). — The English walnut is very 
seriously injured (Ellwood Cooper. Santa Barbara. CaL. Jan. 22, 
1909). 
THE BIRCHES ( BETrLACEJE) . 
Birch (species unknown). — Prof. F. E. L. Beal reports a white- 
barked birch so seriously injured at Salem, Oreg.. that it appeared 
to be dying. 
THE OAKS (FAGACE-E). 
California black oak (Quercus calif arnica) . — All through the 
oak forests of the McCloud River country the black oaks were badly 
pecked ( W. O. Emerson. Mar. 14. 1909)' 
California live oak (Quercus agri folia). — C. S. Thompson. 
THE BARBERRIES ( BERBERIDACE^e) . 
Barberry {Berberis sp.). — C. S. Thompson. 
THE SYCAMORES (PLATAXACEJ)). 
California sycamore ( Plata nus racemosa). — C. S. Thompson. 
THE APPLE FAMILY (maLACE-E). 
Mountain ash {Sorbus sitchensis). — "A species of mountain ash. 
on which none of the shoots were over 3 inches through, had been 
riddled all over by the birds" (Bendire). 
Mountain ash {Sorbus sp.). — Prof. F. E. L. Beal reports an 
arborescent mountain ash so seriously injured at Salem. Oreg., that 
it appeared to be dying. 
Pear {Pyrus communis). — The pear tree is attacked by the red- 
breasted sapsucker ( W. O. Emerson. Hay wards. CaL. Mar, 14. 1909). 
"A pear tree 50 or more years old stands within 20 feet of our house 
and the trunk and lower branches are covered with symmetrically 
arranged pits" (Ernest Adams, Clipper Gap. CaL, Apr. 30, 1909). 
At Blaine. Wash., "the sapsuckers do immense damage, especially 
to the pear trees" (Dawson and Bowles). 
