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peckers to breed, seldom laying before June. It lays five to seven 

 eggs of very variable^size and shape, at varying heights from the 

 ground, ranging from ten to at least sixty feet. (W. E. Saunders.) 

 In 1898 red -headed woodpeckers were numerous near Black Rapids, 

 Ont. Their nests were all very high except two. The first con- 

 tained younglets on the 4th July, and the other, two eggs with 

 embryos on the 21st of the same month. On the 4th June, 1906, 

 while going in that direction I found a nest twenty feet high in a 

 dead branch of an ash tree. The entrance measured two inches in 

 diameter, the depth of the cavity, eleven inches. The nest con- 

 tained six eggs with embryos in them. {A. L. Garneati.) 



CLXXII. ASYNDESMUS Coues. 1866. 

 408. Lewis Woodpecker. 



Asyndesmus torquatus (WiLS.) CouES. 1866. 



Shot only in the open timbered lands in British Columbia east 

 of the Coast range. {Lord.) Abundant in the interior; breeds. 

 (Streator.) East and west of the Coast range; rare on Vancouver 

 island; young taken at Victoria and Comox. (Fannin.) A toler- 

 ably common summer resident at Chilliwack, B.C. (Brooks.) 

 While we were encamped on one of the head waters of the South 

 Saskatchewan at the eastern base of the Rocky mountains a Lewis 

 woodpecker flew overhead and was distinctly recognized by myself 

 and Mr. Batty. (Coues.) One specimen seen at Canmore, east of 

 Banff, in June, 1901; one seen near Elko, B.C., May 12th, 1904; 

 one specimen shot at Revelstoke, B.C., May 5th, 1890; only three 

 specimens seen during the month; rather common at Enderby, 

 Sicamous, Kamloops and Spence bridge in 1889; abundant at Cas- 

 cade, on the International Boundary, B.C., in the summer of 1902; 

 one taken at Huck's, Chilliwack river, B.C., July, 1901 ; one seen at 

 Douglas, May 6th, 1906, and one at Chilliwack, May 26th. (Spread- 

 borough.) Only east of Coast range in B.C.; rare in some localities, 

 in others abundant. (Rhoads.) 



Breeding Notes. — Found a nest near Similkameen river, B.C., 

 June 15th, 1905. It was in a hole in a five poplar tree about five 

 feet from the ground and contained two fresh eggs. (Spreadborough.) 



