ling' note attracts the attention of
only the observant.

The nest-hole is 25-40 feet up; the 5-7 white eggs are laid in May.

PILEATED WOODPECKER

_Phloeotomus pileatus pileatus_

Next to the nearly extinct Ivory-bill this is the
largest of our Woodpeckers. (L. 17.) Both sexes
have a flaming red crest (reaching the forehead in
the male) the remainder of the plumage being
black, with the throat, a stripe from the bill
down the sides of the neck, and the basal half of
the wing-feathers white; bill horn-color.

_Range._ Southeastern and Gulf States, north to
North Carolina. The Northern Pileated Woodpecker
(_P. p. abieticola_) is found thence northward
into Canada and west to the Pacific. It is a
larger bird, with the white areas larger.

In the south the Pileated is by no means rare and seems not averse to
the presence of man; but in the north he retires to the wilder forested
areas and we are apt to see him only when we go a-camping. And he is
well worth seeing with his flaming crest and powerful bill which, used
either as a chisel or drum-stick, produces impressive results. Strangely
enough the Pileated's notes resemble those of the Flicker but are
louder.

The nest is usually well up; the 3-5 white eggs are laid in April in the
south, in May in the north.

RED-HEADED WOODPECKER

_Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Case 3, Figs. 21, 22; Case 6, Fig. 43_

Adults of both sexes have the whole head red;
young, during their first winter, have the head
grayish brown, and a black band across the white
wing-feathers. L. 9-3/4.

_Range._ Eastern United States, west to Rockies;
local east of the Alleghanies and north of
Pennsylvania.

Washington, rather common S.R., rare W.V.
Ossining, rare P.R., common in fall, Aug. 27-Oct.
12. Cambridge, irregular at all seasons; sometimes
common in fall. N. Ohio, common S.R., Apl.
20-Sept. 25; occasionally winters. Glen Ellyn,
common S.R., Feb. 19-Nov. 6; a few winter. SE.
Minn., common S.R., Apl. 4-Sept. 17; rare in
winter.

Adding to the normal habits of a Woodpecker marked skill as a
flycatcher, the Red-head stops his grub-hunting and swings out after a
passing insect with a dazzling display of red, white a