. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . red erythrocephalus. p 3 . Head with black, red, and white or yello\v. 4. Chest band streaked with white . formicivorus. p4. Chest band solid black bairdi. p p. 215. Subgenus in large masses ; outer hind toe and outer front toe of equal lengths. 406. Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linn.).WOODPECKER. Adult male. — Whole head andneck deep crimson ; under parts, rump,and patch on wings, white ; rest ofupper parts, glossy blue black.
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . red erythrocephalus. p 3 . Head with black, red, and white or yello\v. 4. Chest band streaked with white . formicivorus. p4. Chest band solid black bairdi. p p. 215. Subgenus in large masses ; outer hind toe and outer front toe of equal lengths. 406. Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linn.).WOODPECKER. Adult male. — Whole head andneck deep crimson ; under parts, rump,and patch on wings, white ; rest ofupper parts, glossy blue black. Adultfemale : similar, but with more or lesstransverse black spotting on inner sec-ondaries, and black collar more con-spicuous than in male. Young: redand black of adults replaced by \vith darker on bead andneck, barred on rest of upper parts;secondaries crossed near ends by oneor more black bands. Length : , wing tail Distribution. — Breeding in Transi-tion, Upper and Lower Sonoran zonesfrom Manitoba south to the Gulf ofMexico, and from the Atlantic to the Fig. 281. RED-HEADED. From Biological Survey, U. S. Dept. ofAgriculture. 216 WOODPECKERS eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains; casual in Utah and southern Ari-zona. Nest. — 8 to 80 feet from the ground in stumps, dead trunks or branches,and on treeless prairies in fence posts and telegraph poles. Eggs: usually4 to 7, white. Food. — In summer, insects such as grasshoppers, ants, beetles, flies,and larva?, fruits and berries ; in fall and winter, nuts, wild berries, andsmall grains. The red-headed woodpecker is one of our handsomest birds. Itscolors are all keen — the red, glowing red ; the white, snow white;and the black, glossy black. In its methods of hunting, like all the members of the genusMelancrpes, it combines the ways of the flycatchers and the wood-peckers that get their food almost wholly from tree trunks andbranches. In the east, where it depends largely on
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