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red-headed woodpecker. 
only species of woodpecker that ndnters near 
^ttdson’s Bay.” The natives tliere call it Ou-thee- 
^'*aii^nor-ow, from the golden colour of the shafts and 
’‘’’der side feathers of the wings. It has numerous 
’,*^»viucial appellations in the different states ot tlie 
”iiou such as “ Hi''h-holc,” from the situation ot its 
“'Hittock,””* Yucker,” “ Piut,” “ Flicker’’ 1^7 
''“ieh last it is usually known in Pennsylvania. These 
ffnies have probably originated (rom a fancied resem- 
“We of its notes to the sound of the words ; for one 
its most common cries consists of two notes, or 
Ji'Uables. freouently repeated, which, by the help of the 
Ver’s imagination, may easily be made to resemble 
‘*'^y or all of them. 
41. ricas KurTnnocETnAi-vs, i.innjeus — bed-headed 
WOODPECKER. 
'^iesoh, VI.ATE IX. rm. i. —Edinburgh coleege museum. 
There is perhaps no bird in North America more 
"^iverrally knowii than this. His tri-colourcd plumage, 
white, and black, glossed with steel blue, is so 
^''liking, and cliaracteristic ; and his predatory habits 
the orchards and corulields, added to his numbers, 
*‘''1 fondness for hovering along the fences, so very 
,'®torious, that almost every child is acquainted nutn 
fc. 1 . .1 V 1 T-- . .S'. 1 VI ciH 111 A ndfi*'n* 
I '• *eu-neaueu woouuecu^i. xu 
Sirhood of our large cities, where the old timber is 
®'hctly cut down, he is not so frequently lound ; and 
at this preseiff time. June, 1808, I know ot several 
'i* «>eir nests within the boundaries of the city of Phi a. 
r'^lphia. Two of these are in button-wood trees (pfa- 
occidental^,) and another in the decayed limb 
a largo elm. The old ones, 1 observe, make their 
*jtcursious re"ularly to the woods beyond the bchuylkill 
.out a mile distant; preserving groat silence and 
^•■cmnspection in visiting their nests,— precautions not 
“‘“ch attended to by them in the depth ot the woods, 
