438 BIRDS OF ARCTIC AMERICA MACFARLANE. 



dry piue several feet from the ground. A female bird answering to the 

 given description was shot in its vicinity. It may, however, have been 

 an example of P. americanns. 



401a. Picoides americanus alascensis (Nelson). Alaskan Three-toed Woodpecker. 



Althongli no reference is made to their receipt in the said Land Bird's 

 History, my notes record that on oth Juno, 1804, both parents were shot 

 in dose i)roximity to the nest, which contained four eggs. It was a hole 

 in a dry spruce, at a height of six or seven feet — the eggs were lying on 

 the decayed dust of the tree and their contents were perfectly fresh. 

 On 21st June, 1864, a nest probably of the same species was found in a 

 simiUir position, and it was occupied by four young birds of a week or 

 ten days age. One of the parents was seen in the vicinity. This bird 

 was formerly known, and the specimens receipted by the Smithsonian, 

 as F. hirsutus. 



412. Colaptes auratus (Linu.). Flicker. 



It is by no means scarce in the vallej' of the Anderson ; but as its 

 eggs are not in demand very few indeed were gathered for transmission 

 to Washington. 



420. Chordeiles virginianus (Gniel.). Nigbtbawk. 



A few straggling birds have been observed in the far north; but I 

 never came across its nest except in the Clear Water River, Athabasca, 

 where one containing two eggs was found on the ground in the end ot 

 June, 1873. 



468. Empidouax hammoudi (Xantus). Hammond's Flycatcher. 



From an article published in Volume II of the '"Proceedings of the 

 United States National Museum, 1879," by the late eminent and well- 

 known oiilogist. Dr. Brewer, of Boston, I find a reference to some eggs 

 of this Flycatcher obtained from "Anderson Kiver." which I conclude 

 were sent to the Smithsonian among a number of unidentified si)eci- 

 mens, as I can discover no specific record thereof, nor of an example of 

 Myiodioctes pusiUus, entered in the Receii)t List of Birds, under either 

 beading, in my field notes. 



474. Otocoris alpestris (Linn.V Horned Lark. 



Nine nests of this lark were received at Fort Anderson — a few of them 

 from the Esquimaux, and the others were collected by us in the Barrens 

 and on the coast of Franklin Bay. The nest was usually composed of 

 fine hay neatly disposed and lined with deer hair. Several of the parent 

 birds were secured by snares placed thereon. 



