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Pileated Woodpecker
Adult Male--Upper parts black, and line below cheek scarlet; rest of head mostly whitish; under parts blackish; throat white.
Adult Female--Without the red. Length--17.00.
Breeding Range--Rare throughout the Eastern States from Canada southward, except in the thickly wooded regions remote from civilization.
The excavation for the nest is usually in the upper part of a tall tree, sometimes as much as eighty feet from the ground. 3 to 5 glossy white eggs are laid. Size--1.30 x .96.
This is the second largest of our woodpeckers; in fact, the novice has often mistaken him for the ivory-billed, but he differs greatly in his habits, and is much less wild. In Maine I have watched them hammering at the large evergreen trees within a few feet of where I was standing, and they did not appear to object to my presence.