Ceophlceus pileatus. Pileated Woodpecker. 
The Pileated Woodpecker is among the birds most limited in 
the variety of their notes, and indeed its only cry seems to be the 
wild clatter that has been so often described. On one occasion I 
discovered a pair of birds of this species apparently at play 
amongst the trees of a dense hummock. Wishing to secure 
them, I shot the female as she clung to a broken limb on a large 
oak. The male, who had been making a great noise, was silent 
a minute upon the report of the gun, but directly began again, 
and at the same time flew about rapidly as if trying to discover 
his mate. Presently he alighted on the very limb from which 
the other had fallen, and then I fired at him in the midst of one 
of his outbursts. Although he fell, he did not pause in his clat- 
ter for an instant, but came tumbling down until he caught in 
some moss at a distance from the ground, where he continued to 
vociferate without apparently allowing himself to draw a breath. 
Very soon he fell to the earth, but became quiet only when 1 
pressed my hand upon his lungs. It would seem that this bird 
must have felt pleasure, fear, and pain during the time I observed 
him, all of which he expressed by the same sounds. 
Orange Oo, FI*. D, Mortimer,: 
