. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . 5i8 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. Wisconsin and a regular winter resident in southern Illinois. A fewremain during the winter in southern Wisconsin and northern Illi-nois, but the great majority go south. Nests in a hole in a dead tree or stump. The eggs are white, fiveor six in number, and measure about .98 x .75 inches. Breeds in Mayand June. Genus CENTURUS Centurus carolinus (Linn.). Red-bellied Woodpecker. Melanerpes carolinus (Linn.), A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. 166. Distr.: Eastern and southern United States, fr
. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . 5i8 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. Wisconsin and a regular winter resident in southern Illinois. A fewremain during the winter in southern Wisconsin and northern Illi-nois, but the great majority go south. Nests in a hole in a dead tree or stump. The eggs are white, fiveor six in number, and measure about .98 x .75 inches. Breeds in Mayand June. Genus CENTURUS Centurus carolinus (Linn.). Red-bellied Woodpecker. Melanerpes carolinus (Linn.), A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. 166. Distr.: Eastern and southern United States, from New York,Michigan, and Ontario to the Gulf states; west to Nebraska, Kansas,and Texas; not numerous in northern part of its range. Adult male: Top of head and nape, scarlet red, becoming paleon the forehead; back and wings barred with black and white; under. Red-bellied Woodpecker. parts, ashy gray, more or less tinged with olive gray on the sides;middle of belly, red, and breast sometimes tinged with red; tail, black,the outer feathers and inner webs of middle feathers irregularly barredwith white; basal half of primaries, white, marked with black;terminal half, dark brown. Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 519 Adult female: Similar, but only the nape and feathers about thenostrils, red; the crown, ashy gray. Immature birds have the belly tinged with buff. Length, ; wing, ; tail, ; bill, The Red-bellied Woodpecker is a rather uncommon resident innorthern Illinois and Wisconsin, but common in southern Illinois,Mr. H. K. Coale observed a pair in Lincoln Park in July, and a feware observed every year in and about Chicago. According to Kumlien and Hollister it has been found breedingseveral times in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. The nesting siteswere always in large, dead trees overhanging water and gener
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