. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . non wings, no black on head, and undermandible dark-blue; naked spacearound eye, red, plate 14, fig. 218, tip ofV, 13, a, 3. tail feather. Breeds througliout easternN. A. west to the Rockies and north to Labrador; winters inS. A. Well-known birds with chisel-shaped bills, large, strongheads, long wings, two toes in front and two behind, or oneabsent. A. TRUE WOODPECKERS. Picidae. Tail feathers, stiffened and pointed. Nests, in holesmade by the birds; eggs, 6 or 7, white. Young, naked andhelpless. Flight, heavy and undulating but often swif
. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . non wings, no black on head, and undermandible dark-blue; naked spacearound eye, red, plate 14, fig. 218, tip ofV, 13, a, 3. tail feather. Breeds througliout easternN. A. west to the Rockies and north to Labrador; winters inS. A. Well-known birds with chisel-shaped bills, large, strongheads, long wings, two toes in front and two behind, or oneabsent. A. TRUE WOODPECKERS. Picidae. Tail feathers, stiffened and pointed. Nests, in holesmade by the birds; eggs, 6 or 7, white. Young, naked andhelpless. Flight, heavy and undulating but often on trees, etc. as a roll-call. a. Mottled Woodpeckers. Sphryrapiciis. Woodpeckers with rather short, slender bills and withplumage much mottled above and yellowish below. 1. YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, S. vAKius. ;longitudinal white patcli in wing ; male with top of head andthroat crimson ; black patch on breast fig. 219 ; female, throatwhite. Young, with the black of breast replaced with gray DIKECTORY TO BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. L7T. and little red on head, fig. 219; adult plumage, gradually as-sumed. Breeds in eastern N. A. from Fig. Mass, northward; winters fromthe Carolinas southward through theBahamas and West Indies to Costa in April and Oct. , excepting the yiickcr note, allharsh and quite querulous. b. Banded Woodpeckers with stouter, slightly-curved bills, banded with black andwhite above, plain beneath. 1. EED-BELLIED WOODPECKER, W, A, a, 1-6. C. CAROLiNUS. ; male, top of head from bill to nape, scarlet; ashy-gray beneath more or less tinged with red; up- Fig. 220. per tail coverts, white, fig. 220; female with y^:Z^~^ top of head gray, nape, scarlet. Resident in rN ^s^ ^ ) eastern IJ. S. from Penn. southward; casualffi Sslk\ ^^ ^^^ north as Mass. Cries, harsh and quer-ulous, with the ^yucka note rarely given. c. Tri-colored Rather stout woodpeckers with colors,
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