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Ceophloceus pileatus.
Lake Umbagog, Me.
Sept. & Oct. 1893.
Hylocomus pileatus.
Sept 22 ⅛ 23 ⅜ 26 ⅝ 27 ⅞ 28 ¾
Oct. 3 ⅛ 5 ⅜ 6 ⅝ Point 7 ⅞ do 8 ⅜ do 13 ½ do.
Lake Umbagog, Me.
Sept. & Oct. 1893.
Hylocomus pileatus ✓
Oct. 6 a ♂ Pileated Woodpecker comes
regularly each day, usually in the
morning to a knoll near camp
where there are a number of old pines
both standing and fallen. This far
I have heard its vocal cry twice
the long laugh which he utters
quite as often when flying as when
perched. This morning I called him
to within 20 yds. by clapping my
hollowed hands to so make a
sound like that of his hammering
on a rotten log. He alighted against
a spruce and ran up keeping
behind the trunk or peeking out at
me. When he flew his wings, at
each stroke, made a heavy whirring
sound audible in the still air: 40 yds.
away. This Woodpecker, unlike the
smaller Pileatus, usually flaps his wings
steadily like a Crow and has sometimes
galleps
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1894
Ceophlaus pileatus
August 27 ⅛ Upton this
" 28 ⅜ Lakeside
September 9 ⅝ Leonard's P. 10 ½ do.
" 11 ¼ " "
" 12 ¾ " " 1 13 Belle Br. Pond.
" 13 ⅞ " " 14 "
" 15 ⅜ Pine Point. Bird near
Camp " shouting in early morning, at noon
hammering at a dead rotten birch & making
a continuous, low whining or murmuring
growling almost exactly like that of a
muscle rat, but audible only 20 or 30 yds away.
I have never heard this sound before [unleg]
Jurists near the South House in Oct. 1882 [in journal?]
September 20 ⅛ Anderson's K. near Woods Marden
" 22 ½ Leonard's Pond.
" 28 ⅜ Megallowy River
" 29 ⅝ Bernard's Pond.
October 3 ⅛ Pine Point
" 4 ¾ " "
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1895. Ceophlaus pileatus
September 1 ½ very tame 5 ⅜ Pine Pt.
Cand. Riv.
" 10 ¾ (megal.) 11 ⅞ Pyje. 12 ¼ Bernard's Pond.
" 15 ⅛ Pine 16 ② Pt. 19 ⅛ Pin Pt.
" 23 ⅜ (Pine Pt.) 23 ⅝ 25 ⅞ 28 ¾ Pine Ct.
Lake Umbagog.
1896. Ceophlaus pileatus
May 13 (Belle H.) 14 ⅛ 15 ⅜ 17 ⅝ near
Baldwin's
" 25 ⅛ Point. Monday Budget 28 ⅞
June 1 ¼ Leonard's 3' Pine Point 4 ⅛ 5 ⅜ 6 ⅝ 7 ¼ Pond.
" 14 ½ About 4 miles S. of Tripville Notch.
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