Red-headed Woodpeckers. 
|P Tour advice about the red-headed Wood- 
peckers came too late. I had been watch- 
ing a pair that had their nest finished for 
some time, and finally concluded that they 
'must have completed the set, and so 
opened the hole to find it empty. A sec- 
ond nest I had my “ eye” on was opened 
by small boys. I still have one left from 
which I hope to get a set. Mr. Worthing- 
ton shot one of the birds which belonged 
to this nest, but I was there to-day and 
I ^the other bird had secured a new mate 
■ s' and was very much worried when I was 
near the nest, so I think she has begun to 
^ lay. I shall not distub her however for 
^another week as this is my “third and last 
^chance” for a set, and I want to be sure 
this time. Worthington has shot four of 
H. these birds this Spring which I think 
^ would have bred. I told him he ought 
not to shoot them, but he didn’t think 
they were going to stay. 
Tioga Oo.N.Y. Aide* Loring- 
375 , Red-headed Woodpecker. Not com- 1 
mon. Breeds. Excavates a hole in a decayed i 
tree and lays its five glossy, white eggs on the 
chips it has made. The measurements of a 
set of five eggs now before me are ldn. by 
23-30 in., 1 in. by 11-42 in., 1 in. by 23-36 in., 
1 in. by 23-36 in., 1 1-6 in. by 3-4 in. 
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