RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 
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hearty repast on holly and smilax berries. Like the 
preceding, the Log-cock frequently digs out a cavity 
in some tree, as a deposit for his eggs and brood. The 
eggs are about 6, of a snowy whiteness ; and they are 
said to raise two broods in the season. 
The Pileated Woodpecker is about 18 inches in length, and 28 in 
alar extent. The crest and mustachios bright scarlet, inclining to 
crimson. Chin, stripe from the nostrils passing down the side of the 
neck to the sides and extending under the wings, white ; the upper 
half of the wings white, but concealed by the black coverts ; lower 
extremities of the wings, and the rest of the body brownish-black. 
Legs lead color. Bill fluted, bluish-black above, below, and at point 
bluish-white. Iris golden. 
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 
(Picus erythi'ocephalus, L. Wilson, 1 . p. 142. pi. 9. fig. 1. Audubon, 
pi. 27. Orn. 1. p. 141. [The male and female feeding their half 
fledged young.] Phil. Museum, No. 1922.) 
Sp. Charact. — Head, neck, and throat, crimson ; the back, wings, 
and tail, black, with bluish reflections ; secondaries, rump, lower 
part of the back, and under parts of the body, white. — Female 
less brightly colored. — - The Young with the head and neck dull 
grey, varied with blackish. 
The geographic limits of this common and well known 
species are coextensive with the preceding. It is met 
with, in short, from the sources of the Mississippi, in 
latitude 50°, to the Gulph of Mexico, was observed 
by Mr. Say in the region of the Rocky Mountains, 
and by Lewis and Clarke in the forests near the Pacific. 
In all the intermediate country, however extensive, it 
probably resides and breeds. At the approach of winter, 
or about the middle of October, they migrate from the 
north and west, and consequently appear very numerous 
in the Southern States at that season. Many of them also 
probably pass into the adjoining provinces of Mexico, 
and they reappear in Pennsylvania, (according to Wil- 
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