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Decrease of Birds in M*ss. J. A. Allen 
It is also a matter of record that 
the Red-headed Woodpecker has nearly disappeared almost within 
the present generation, from all the region east of the Hudson 
River, where it was formerly as common, apparently, as it is no 
in any of the Middle or Western States. In this ease, however the 
disappearance is without an evident cause. The deforestation of t e 
State has undoubtedly produced a vast decrease among the othe 
species of the Picidw, as well as generally among all the stric - y 
forest birds, through the great restriction of their natural haun s. 
Bull. N, 0.0, I, Sept, 1876. p. d'6'. 
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Another bird that I 
did not expect to see was the Red-headed Woodpecker. Numbers 
of them had been seen during the fall, but about the first of 
December most of them disappeared. Still some remained, and 
were seen in Brookline during the entire winter, not leaving us 
until the middle of April. 
X Bull. N, 0. 0, 8, July. 1888. p, /6 0 . 
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