. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . t, then risingby means of two or three more strokes. Most of the Wood-peckers feed on the larvae of borers which they extract fromthe trunks or limbs of trees ; they are, therefore, permanentresidents. The Sapsucker, however, and Flicker are notadapted to feed on borers, and are therefore migrants. 216 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK Northern Flicker ; Golden-winged Woodpecker. Colcvptes a
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . t, then risingby means of two or three more strokes. Most of the Wood-peckers feed on the larvae of borers which they extract fromthe trunks or limbs of trees ; they are, therefore, permanentresidents. The Sapsucker, however, and Flicker are notadapted to feed on borers, and are therefore migrants. 216 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK Northern Flicker ; Golden-winged Woodpecker. Colcvptes auratiis luteus Ad. $. — Head grayish-brown, a scarlet baud across nape ofneck ; back brown, barred with black ; wings and tail black ;shafts and under sides of icings and tail-feathers golden-yellow;rump white ; throat pinkish-brown ; line along side of throat andband across upper breast black ; rest of under parts buffy,marked with round black spots. Ad. 9 • — Similar, but withoutthe black line along the side of the throat. Nest^ in a hole in a dead limb. Eggs, white. Near the sea-coast, from Massachusetts southward, and inthe lower Hudson Valley, the Flicker is not uncommon in. Fig. 65. Northern Flicker winter. In the rest of New England it is only a summerresident, common everywhere except in the northernheavily-forested regions. The migrants return in March orApril, and are then extremely noisy; their loud wick ivickwick wick is one of the characteristic sounds of a brightspring morning. This is generally the cry of the male only,who also delivers at this season a tattoo on a resonant limb,which may often be heard in the pauses of the loud call. NORTHERN FLICKER 217 The ordinary call-note of the Flicker is a high-pitchedti-err, often confused by beginners with the tee7^ of theBlue Jay. The Flickers note is sharper, less prolonged,and has a marked downward inflection; it is, moreover,usually given but once, or repeated only after a little in-terval, whereas the J
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