. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. 216 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK NOKTHEKN PlICKEE ; GoLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKEE. Colaptes auratus luteus Ad. $. — Head grayish-brown, a scarlet band across nape of neck ; back brown, barred with black ; wings and tail black ; shafts and under sides of wings and tail-feathers golden-yellow; rump white ; throat pinkish-brown ; line along side of throat an
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. 216 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK NOKTHEKN PlICKEE ; GoLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKEE. Colaptes auratus luteus Ad. $. — Head grayish-brown, a scarlet band across nape of neck ; back brown, barred with black ; wings and tail black ; shafts and under sides of wings and tail-feathers golden-yellow; rump white ; throat pinkish-brown ; line along side of throat and band across upper breast black; rest of under parts buffy, marked with round black spots. Ad. $. — Similar, but without the 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 in the lower Hudson Valley, the Flicker is not uncommon in. Fig. 65. Northern Flicker winter. In the rest of New England it is only a summer resident, common everywhere except in the northern heavily-forested regions. The migrants return in March or April, and are then extremely noisy; their loud wick wick wick wick is one of the characteristic sounds of a bright spring 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 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hoffmann, Ralph, b. 1870; Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927. Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
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