Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1837. Spent most of the morning hunting Woodcock in the alder Sept.12. covers on Upton Hill behind Morse's, leaving my horse at Bragg's. On the drive home I saw a young Melanerpes erythro- cephalus. It flew across the road just below Whitney's and alighted on a larch in a pasture. I followed it but it start- ed before I could get within range and took a long flight to- wards the woods where I lost sight of it.