. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . erica north to Hudsons breed throughout their range and winter south from Illinois and Mas-sachusetts. Though true woodpeckers, they are often seen on the ground, whereworms and larvae of insects tempt them, and the smaller wild fruits of thedogwood, gumberry, and cherry are eagerly sought after in their season. The Red-bellied Woodpecker is about nine inches and a half long. It impresses one, in a way, as a small Flicker, having a certain general resem- „ blance to that bird. In the adult male the entire top of R
. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . erica north to Hudsons breed throughout their range and winter south from Illinois and Mas-sachusetts. Though true woodpeckers, they are often seen on the ground, whereworms and larvae of insects tempt them, and the smaller wild fruits of thedogwood, gumberry, and cherry are eagerly sought after in their season. The Red-bellied Woodpecker is about nine inches and a half long. It impresses one, in a way, as a small Flicker, having a certain general resem- „ blance to that bird. In the adult male the entire top of Red-belhed 111 ,■ n 1 , , 1 • 1 1 • • Woodoecker head, extendmg well back on the neck, is clear shmmg Meianerpes caroiinus scaHet. Thc back is bapred black and white. The feathers above the base of the tail are white, marked with black streaks. The wings are barred black and white, except that the larger feathers are black at their ends. The tail is marked in the same way, except on the two middle feathers, which have less white than the others. The sides of. FLICKER SHOWING INTERIOR WITH EQQS. 178 Bird Studies. the head and under parts throughout are dull whitish ash, with the middle of thebelly and the region below the bill and often the breast tinged or suffusedwith scarlet. The female is like the male except that the scarlet of the upperparts is confined to the back of the head and neck and region about the nos-trils, the crown being ashy gray. The nest is built in holes in trees excavated by the birds, where four tosix white ecrors are laid. These are about an inch long and a little less thanthree quarters of an inch in their other diameter. The birds are found in Eastern North America north regularly to Mary-land on the coast, and to Dakota and Ontario in the interior. They breedfrom Florida throughout their range, and winter from Virginia and Ohio south. When great unbroken forests clothed what are now the farming andagricultural lands of the Easter
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