. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . at their bases. The female is similar to the male. The red of the head however islimited to the crest and there is no red patch at the base of the bill. sm\ In the Woods. 1/9 The nesting is like that of other woodpeckers, a hole excavated by thebirds in some tree. One that I took in Florida was in a palmetto forty feetfrom the ground ; another in a dead pine scarcely fifteen feet up. These wereboth found early in April, one containing four and the other five fresh were white and about an inch and three tenths lon
. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . at their bases. The female is similar to the male. The red of the head however islimited to the crest and there is no red patch at the base of the bill. sm\ In the Woods. 1/9 The nesting is like that of other woodpeckers, a hole excavated by thebirds in some tree. One that I took in Florida was in a palmetto forty feetfrom the ground ; another in a dead pine scarcely fifteen feet up. These wereboth found early in April, one containing four and the other five fresh were white and about an inch and three tenths long and nearly an inchin their smaller diameter. The yellow-bellied Woodpecker is decidedly a woodland bird during thebreeding season, but during its migrations, particularly in fall, many appear Yellow-bellied ^^ ^^^ orchards and trees about country houses. Woodpecker. The male is a distinguished bird, with the top of sphyrapicusvarius (Linn.), head aucl his throat deep scarlet. The back is barred with yellowish white on a black ground. There is a large white area on. YELLOW-BELLIED WOODPECKER. each shoulder and the feathers of the wings are much marked with eeneral color of the tail is black, with white margins to the outerfeathers. The breast is clear shiny black. Back of this the under parts areyellow, streaked with black and dusky on the sides. The adult female has awhite throat, sometimes a scarlet crown, though this region is frequentlyclear black and again black with a mixture of scarlet feathers. Otherwiseshe is like the adult male. Immature birds resemble the female, but areduller colored generally and have brown or dusky brown on the top of the i8o Bird Studies, head, often with a mixture of dull red feathers. Frequently there is an ad-mixture of scarlet with the dull throat feathers. The nesting is similar to that of most woodpeckers, a hole in some tree,excavated by the birds at varying heights from the ground. Four to sevenwhite eggs are laid which are nea
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