One of their amusements was to drum on the tin girdles of the shade trees; and meanwhile they themselves afforded a pastime to the gray squirrels, who were often to be seen creeping stealthily after them, as if they imagined that melanerpes erythrocephalus might possibly be caught, if only he were hunted long enough.
"Birds in the Bush"
Bradford Torrey
15. melanerpes erythrocephalus, Red-headed Woodpecker.
"The Woodpeckers"
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
The weak one I dubbed Jacob, which is the name the people of the valley had given the woodpeckers from the sound of their cries; the stronger bird I called Bairdi, as 'short' for melanerpes formicivorus bairdi-the name the ornithologists had given them.
"A-Birding on a Bronco"
Florence A. Merriam