232 WOODPEUKERS.

then it will fly from a detaehed tree of a iield to a considerable dis- tanee before it alights, emitting at every glide a loud. shrill note" (Audubon).

401. Picoides americanus ”IV/1H1. AmslueAN Tl‘itizi-zi-J-rulin Woun— rxemtit. Arl. c3 .—Toes three. two in front; head spotted with white and with an orange-yellow pateh on the crown; but-1' barred wit/1 blue/c and white; wing-feathers spotted with blaek and white; middle tail»t'eathers black, outer ones black and white; region below the eye mixed blaei and white; sides more or less barred with black and white; rest of the under parts white. ,‘lt[.9.—'Sllllil1ll'. but erown spotted with black and white, and with— out yellow. .14.. 8'75: W", 4-55; T.7 3'10; B. from N., "J5.

Aviva—Northern North Amerieu; south to the northern [‘nited States.

Just, in the lower part of a tree. Jim/N, white, "0:: x '70 (Merriam, Bull. Nutt. Urn. Club; iii; leis. p. 2100 i.

“It is said to greatly resemble P. rilloeus in habits, except that; it seeks its food principally upon decaying trees of the pine tribe, in which it frequently makes holes large enough to bury itself. It is not migratory" (13., 1%., and R.).

402. Sphyrapicus varius (Lil/11.». YELLow-mattncn SAPSL’CKER. All. 5 .——('rown deep searlet, baek irregularly barred with black and yellow- ish white; \\'ing»t'eathers spotted with white, their eo\‘erts mostly white; tail blaek, the middle feathers with broken black bars. the outer ones with white nuu'gins; a white line from the bill passes: below the eye: throat ear— dinal: breast blaek: sides streaked with blaek; belly pale yellow. .711]. 9 .— Similar; but throat white; erown sometimes blaek; outer tail-feathers with broken white bars. [HAW-Similar to ads.. but with the erown dull blackish; the breast brownish gray barred with blaek, the throat whitish. L.,8'541; w., 457; '12, 3-20; 1-1.,1'3.

1ft:;i{/tt.——l'fiztstei'tt North Ameriea; breeds from Massaehusetts northward, and winters from Virginia to t'entral Ameriea.

Washington, common T. \'.. Meh. and .\pl.: ()et.V oeeasional in winter: Sing Sing, eommon '1‘. \’.; i\pl. .3 to May 1:}: Sept. 18 to (let. 23: casual in winter. (‘ambridgtg not uneoxnmon T. \'.; .\pl. and (let.

me, about forty feet from the ground. [Em/x; tire to seven; ‘37 x “57.

As migrants, Sapsuekers “‘0 rather inconspicuous. 'I‘hey frequent living: trees, where they are concealed by the foliage and their weak call-note is not likely to attract attention.

0n reaching their summer homes in the spring their character changes. and Dr. Merriam speaks of them as “noisy, rollicking fel— lo\' ' - they are always chasing one another among the trees, screaming meanwhile at the tops of their voices" (Bull. Nutt. Orn. (.‘lub. i\’, 1879. p. ‘3 . Mr. Brewster describes the note of the adults at this reason as“ " a clear. ringing elm/r. repeated five or six times in succession ”: while young.r and old utter " a low. snarling cry that bears no \‘ery dis-