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RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER, Centurus carolmus (Linn.) 
This Woodpecker is more common in the southern part of the 
state than northward, but is resident the j^ear round, wherever found. 
It shows a preference for moist, wooded bottom-land, and its loud 
call-note is sure to attract attention. Its usual diet of worms and 
insects is varied by wild fruit, acorns, beechnuts and sometimes 
apples. Whatever loss is occasioned by its fondness for cultivated 
fruits is fully atoned for by its destruction of injurious insects. 
This is one of the most beautiful and useful members of this valu¬ 
able family. 
DOWNY WOODPECKER, Dryobatespubescens mediatius (Swains.) 
This is the smallest of our Woodpeckers and occurs in all parts 
of the state, being-equally common both summer and winter. It is 
found in deep woodland, in orchards, or on the shade trees of city 
streets. The food consists of injurious insects, their eggs andlarvae. 
DOWNY WOODPECKER, Drvobatespubescens mediatius (Swains. 
Fig. 13. After Washburn, Ninth Annual Report, 
State Entomologist of Minnesota. 
