. Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds . Woodpecker: Dryobates villosus. Plate VIII. Fig. 5. Length : 9-10 inches. Male and Female: Above black and white, white stripe on middle ofback, red stripe on head. Wings spotted and striped withblack and white, four outer tail feathers white. Under partsgrayish white. Bill blunt, stout, and straight, nearly as long ashead. Female lacks red spot on head. Note : A short, tapping sound. Season : Resident; shifting about in light woods. Breeds : Through range. Nest: In holes in trees at moderate height. 196 PLATE VII
. Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds . Woodpecker: Dryobates villosus. Plate VIII. Fig. 5. Length : 9-10 inches. Male and Female: Above black and white, white stripe on middle ofback, red stripe on head. Wings spotted and striped withblack and white, four outer tail feathers white. Under partsgrayish white. Bill blunt, stout, and straight, nearly as long ashead. Female lacks red spot on head. Note : A short, tapping sound. Season : Resident; shifting about in light woods. Breeds : Through range. Nest: In holes in trees at moderate height. 196 PLATE VIII. 1. White-breasted Nuthatch, Male . 2. White-breasted Nutliatch, Female 3. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker . . 4. Chickadee 5. Hairy Woodpecker 6. Red-headed Woodpecker . . 7. Flicker, Male 8. Flicker, Female 9. Downy Woodpecker 10. Brown Creeper 11. Red-breasted Nuthatch .... FOR DE8CBIP- TIO>f 8EE PAGE bout i natural size) 73 K. 1 I 3 ) 73 i ) 198 1 ) 72 U 2 . ) 196 i ) 199 f ) 200 \ ) 200 U 1 t 3 ) 198 U 1 I2 ) 75 - i ) 74 1^ (UU^ ih-r^xL^ic^j :.^ ^J^7^,:^t^^j. SONGLESS BIRDS. Woodpeckers Eggs: 5, clear white, but, according to Samuels, owing to theirtransparency, they have a pink tint before they are blown. Bange: Middle portion of the eastern United States from the Atlan-tic coast to the Great Plains. The Hairy Woodpecker is a common bird in woodedregions, especially where partly decayed trees have beenleft standing. Its creeping motion when scanning treetrunks for insects resembles that of the Black-and-whiteWarbler. Though it is abundant, it is shy in the breeding-season and keeps to secluded woodlands, but in the fall andwinter conies freely to orchards and about houses. It hasan affection for particular trees and often uses the sametree, if not perhaps the same hole, for several successiveseasons. Eight years ago I noticed this species in May in Samp-Mortar woods, a wild, rocky place, covered with laurel andabounding in the rarer ferns. From the crest of MortarRock I cou
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