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in 1904 and at Midway and Sidley in 1905; observed everywhere in 

 the ChilHwack valley, B.C., and on the mountains there in 1901; 

 common on Vancouver island and resident wherever I have been. 

 (Spreadborough.) Found in comparative abundance ever^'where in 

 British Columbia. (Rhoads.) 



Breeding Notes. — This bird is becoming quite rare. I have 

 seen it in the counties of Frontenac, Lanark and Renfrew, Ont. ; 

 never during the past fifteen years in the county of Leeds or along 

 the St. Lawrence. In the heavily timbered and rough sections of 

 the former counties, as recently as ten years ago it was comparatively 

 common, now (1901) it is seldom seen. It breeds early, commencing 

 its nest-hole in April. In 1888 I saw a nest in a large basswood tree 

 between Perth and Lanark, Ont., about thirty feet from the ground. 

 I have also seen the nest in a maple near Bob lake, Frontenac county, 

 this is about its southern breeding limit in Ontario at the present 

 time. In 1903 I again found a nest in this county in a bass-wood 

 stub fifty feet from the ground, which on May 15th contained three 

 fresh eggs. (Rev. C. J. Young.) I have a set of six eggs that were 

 collected at Lake Joseph, Muskoka, Ont., on June 2nd, 1899. 

 Eggs laid in a hole in a decayed pine twenty feet from the base. 

 (W. Raine.) 



CLXXI. MELANERPES Swainson. 1831. 

 406. Red-headed Woodpecker. 



Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linn.) Swains. 1831. 



Very rare in Nova Scotia. A mere straggler. (Downs.) Occa- 

 sionally met with in New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) Occasionally 

 met with in Quebec. (Dionne.) Summer resident; scarce. Ob- 

 serv^ed on the Island of Montreal May 24th, 1882, and June 24th, 

 1883. (Wintle.) 



A rather scarce summer resident at Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, 

 Vol. V.) Common summer resident at Toronto, Ont., breeds; one 

 winter record, January 28th, 1905. One of the species that is in- 

 creasing with the settlement of the Muskoka and Parry Sound 

 districts. Mr. Kay speaks of it as rare at Port Sydney in 1890, 

 but increasing rapidly; in 1893 it was rare at Emsdale, but has 

 become much commoner. (/. H. Fleming.) Fairly common in all 



