Old Records for Mass, & Rhode Id. 
August 31, 1889. Shot one Red-headed Woodpecker ( Melanerpes ery- 
throcephalus) , in immature plumage, apparently born on t e is an i. 
September 23 saw a young bird, on November 23, saw anothe , 
September 10, 1881, shot one. 
Auk 28, Jan -1011 
Red-headed Woodpecker at Newburyport, Mass.— On July 13, 
1912 while engaged in photographing, in a mowing field, the nest and eggs 
of the Ring-necked Pheasant, my attention was caught by a flash of bold 
color in a nearbv elm, and on the completion of my work with the camera 
I went to investigate the owner of the brilliant plumage. Soon locating 
him on a dead limb near the upper centre of the tree I readily 
him as a Red-headed Woodpecker (. Melanerpes erylhrocephalus), an un- 
common bird in this part of New England. I had a good view of him 
covering a period of several minutes, as he explored the points of interest 
on the dead limbs of the tree. After a little while he took flight m a 
northerly direction, but although I walked for some little distance, I was 
unsuccessful in getting another glimpse of him. , , 
Inquiries in the neighborhood brought out the fact that he had bee 
seen several times, earlier in the season, but I could find no one who knew 
of his breeding here. Doubtless he was a solitary wanderer who had 
straved from his usual range. . 1r i 
Some twenty years ago a pair of these birds were found nesting m an old 
orchard in the southern end of the town. Just at the time that the our 
young, were ready to fly, the whole family was taken and now graces the 
private collection of a resident of the town.- S. Waldo Batlev, New- 
bury port, Mass. 
JSfiJk XX IX. C'St. i'91. 
