. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. mo PILEATED WOODPECKER. flyinff, he instantly makes for the nearest tree, and strikes with ^reat bitterness at the hand stretched out to seize him; ana can rarely be reconciled to confinement. He is sometimes observed among the hills of Indian corn, and it is said by somo that he frequently feede on it. Complaints of this kind arc, however, not general; many farmers doubting the fact, and conceiving that at these
. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. mo PILEATED WOODPECKER. flyinff, he instantly makes for the nearest tree, and strikes with ^reat bitterness at the hand stretched out to seize him; ana can rarely be reconciled to confinement. He is sometimes observed among the hills of Indian corn, and it is said by somo that he frequently feede on it. Complaints of this kind arc, however, not general; many farmers doubting the fact, and conceiving that at these times is in search of insects which lie concealed in the husk. I will not be positive that they never occasioniiUy taste maize; yet I have opened and oxninincd ereat numbers of these birds, killed in various parts of tho Unitod States, from Lake Ontario to the Alatamaha River, but never found a errain of Indian corn in tli( ir stomachs. ., , The Plicated Woodpecker is not migrati;ry, but braves the extremes of both the arctic and torrid regions. Neither is he gregarious, lor it is rare to see more than one or two, or at the most three, in company. Formerly they were numerous in the neighborhood of Philadc pliia; but gradually, as the old timber fell, and the country became better cleared, they retreated to tho forest. At present few of those birds are to be found within ten or fifteen miles of the city. , , , „ Their nest is built, or rather the eggs are deposited, in the hole of a tree, dug out by themselves, no other materials being used but tho soa chips of rotten wood. The female lays six large eggs, of a snowy whiteness; and, it is said, tlioy generally raise two broods in the same season. , • • ^ * 4i,„ This species is eighteen inches long, and twenty-eight m extent, the general color is a dusky brownish black; the head is ornamented with a conical cap of bright scarlet; two scarlet mustaches proceed from the lower mandible; the chin is white; the nostri
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