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taut resemblance to the mew of the ('atbird” (Bull. Nutt. Urn. Club, i, 1876, p. mi).

The. Sapsuelter feeds largely on the juices of trees, whieh it obtains by perforating the bark. (See Belles, Auk, \‘iii, 1591, p. 256; ix, 1892, p.110»

405- CeOphlmus pileatus t’ [in/1.1 l’II.i-:.\'rr:n \Voonri—zeiucn. At]. 5 . » ripper parts blaeliish tuseous; whole top of the head searlet, the t'eathers. lengthened to term a ere-st; a narrow white stripe bordering this erest sepa— rates it from the t'Useous ear—eoyerts; a stripe beginning at the nostril and passing down the sides at the neek to the shoulders is tinged with yellow before the eye and is white haelt ot' the eye: it is separated from the white throat by a searlet stripe at the base of the lower mandible; basal halt'of the “ingrtieatlters white; under parts t'useous. the feathers sometimes lightly margined with white: hill ltot'ireulor. ml. 9 .—.\‘imilar, but without red on the fore part ot‘ the erown or at the base of the lower mandible. L.,17‘oo; \\"., sue; ’1‘..4r2e: IL. 12%.

lilting/(277" Formerly whole wooded region of North Ameri *a; now rare or extirpated in the more thieltly settled parts of the Eastern States.”

\\'ashine‘ton. rare 1’. ll.

Mat, t\\'eltt§'~ti\'e to eighty feet from the ground. [L's/yr, four to six,1'3” x ‘04.

This species is common only in the wilder parts of its range. In the hammocks and cypress swamps 01' Florida it oeeurs in numbers. There, contrary to the experience ot‘ Audubon. i found it by no means a wild bird. Indeed. I’lielters Were more diliieult to approach. 011 the Suwanee, River. in March. 1 have called these birds to me by sitti- ply (-lapping my slightly elosed palms. making a sound in imitation of their tapping on a resonant limb.

The flight of this speeies is rather slow. but usually direct. not undulating. as in most “'omipeekers. \Vhen under way the white markings of the wings show conspicuously. ’l‘heir usual call-note is a sonorous row—row-r'ow. repeated rather slowly many times. suggesting a somewhat similar eall of the Flieker‘s. Like the Flieker. they have also a u'iehrw note uttered when two birds come together.

406. Melanerpes erythrocephalust Liam. lino—HEAD“) \Vonn— I‘Et'KElc. zit/.rillt‘tfll. neek. throat. and upper breast deep red; upper haek. primaries, bases ot‘ the seeondaries. and \\'itti_:—eo\‘erts bluislt hiaek: end half ot'the set-ondaries. rump. and upper tail—eo\'erts white; tail blaek. the feath— ers more or less tipped or untrained with white: lower breast and belly white. the middle ot'tlte latter generally tinged with reddish. [114.7 Red head and neek ot'the adult replaeed by mixed grayish brown and t'useous: upper baek bluish blaelx'. barred with ashy: primaries and wing—eoyerts blaelt: end half of the secondaries irregularly barred with blaek: tail black. generally tipped with white: lower breast and beliy white. more or less streaked or spotted with t'usenus‘. l... ‘J'TS: W“ 3'33: 'l'_. 32'2”: H” i'tT.