. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. WOODPECKERS 141 or al)sent altogether. Harris's ' Woodpecker (Drxobatcs villosiis liarrisi) is found along the Pacific coast from Alaska to northern California. Cabanis's Woodpecker ( Dryobalcs z'illosus hylo- scof^iis) lives in the interior districts from north- ern California, southern Utah, northwestern and central New Mexico, extreme southwestern Texas, south to the mountains of western Mexico. The range of the Queen Charlotte Woodpecker {Dryobatcs rillosiis fticoidriis) is limited to the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. These last thr
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. WOODPECKERS 141 or al)sent altogether. Harris's ' Woodpecker (Drxobatcs villosiis liarrisi) is found along the Pacific coast from Alaska to northern California. Cabanis's Woodpecker ( Dryobalcs z'illosus hylo- scof^iis) lives in the interior districts from north- ern California, southern Utah, northwestern and central New Mexico, extreme southwestern Texas, south to the mountains of western Mexico. The range of the Queen Charlotte Woodpecker {Dryobatcs rillosiis fticoidriis) is limited to the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. These last three varieties are about an inch smaller than the Northern and Kocky Mountain Hairies, and their differences from one another are comparative. L. Nelson Nichols. The ilairv Woodpecker is a bird from which the orchardist and forester have nothing to fear and much to gain. The number of useful insects which he eats is insignificant while the number of destructive which he devours must have a very great effect in reducing the number of these pests. More than three-fourths of the food of this \\'oodpecker consists of ani- mal matter and less than a fourth of the re- mainder is fruit and this is mostly wild fruit. The ratio between the animal food and the vegetable matter does not vary greatly during the year; the w-ood-boring larvse upon which this bird so largely feeds can be obtained at all times of the year and the same is true of most of its vegetable NEST AND EGGS OF HAJfRY WOODPECKER Section of stub removed DOWNY WOODPECKER Dryobates pubescens medianus (S7^'»i) A. O. U. Number 394c See Color Plate 59 Other Names.— Little Guinea Woodpecker; Little Sapsuckcr (incorrect) ; Tommy Woodpecker: Black and White Driller. General Description.— Length, 614 inches. Upper parts, black and wliite; under parts, white. Color.— Adult M.\le : Crown, sides of head, center of hindneck. sides of back, shoulders, and upper tail- coverts, black faintly glossed with bluish ;
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