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six miles north of that peak. To the north of the White 

 Mountains, the bird is a resident of the coniferous forests. In 

 fall and winter there is often a fairly well defined movement of 

 the birds into the White Mountain valleys and over the south- 

 ern part of the state. Thus Mr. G. C. Shattuek saw 3 or 4 

 during the last week of December, 1899, at the Albany Inter- 

 vales, and another at the same place on Feb. 18, 1901. Mr. 

 Ned Dearborn ('98, p. 19) records a female seen at Alton on 

 Dec. 20, 1890, and implies that he has known of others taken in 

 winter in the southern part of the state ; Mr. C. F. Goodhue 

 ('77' P- 96) has found it a very rare fall and winter visitant at 

 Webster; Dr. Charles Palmer ('71) has recorded a specimen 

 taken late in fall at Strafford ; at Hampton Falls, the bird has 

 been observed in fall by Mr. W. F. Cram, and Mr. A. A. Faton 

 writes me of one shot at Seabrook in November, 1888, and a 

 second specimen killed at the same place on Nov. 26, 1899. 



132. Picoides americanus Brehm. American Three- 

 toed Woodpecker. 



An uncommon permanent resident of the upper Canadian 

 zone in the White Mountains and in the upper part of the state. 

 In winter, there is a slight movement into the valleys, and rare- 

 ly into the southern part of the state. Thus Mr. G. C. Shat- 

 tnck has seen a single bird on each of the dates Dec. 31, 1900, 

 and Feb. 14, 1901, at the Albany Intervales, the valley west of 

 the Moat Mountains and north of the .Sandwich range, and on 

 Bear Mountain of the latter range, Frank Bolles ('93b, p. 247) 

 has recorded seeing a pair on Dec. 21, 1891, apparently about 

 half way up the mountain. Mr. C. F. Goodhue ('85, p. 14) 

 has taken a single bird at Webster in January, 1875. On the 

 White Mountains themselves, whether by chance or otherwise, 

 I have found this the commoner of the two three-toed wood- 

 peckers. It occurs in summer in the rich, damp, balsam forests 

 from 3,00b feet (or slightly less where cold streams flow off on 

 the northern slopes) to 4,000 feet. Mr. William Brewster has 

 taken two adult males at Gorham, July .i". [870, and Mr. C. J. 

 Maynard has seen one in August by the road not far from the 

 Glen House (Brewster, ed., '95, p. 333). Dr. A. P. Chad- 



