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eggs and two fresh eggs. Another nest near had been robbed and 

 broken and a flicker was beginning to excavate a new nest-cavity. 

 (A. L. Garneau.) 



413. Red-shafted Flicker. 



Colaptes cafer collaris (Vigors) Nelson. 1900. 



A specimen of this species was killed to the westward of the Rocky 

 mountains by Mr. Douglas. {Richardson.) The most abundant of 

 the summer visitors on Vancouver island and in British Columbia. 

 (Lord.) Five specimens taken at Ashcroft are of this form. (Streator.) 

 East of the Coast range; common. (Fannin.) This species was 

 common at Banff in the spring of 1891 ; breeding at Devil lake and 

 seen eating ants above the timber line on Mount Aylmer, Aug. 6th, 

 1891 ; common at Revelstoke on the Columbia, and down that river 

 to Deer Park and Robson; also common and breeding in Eagle 

 pass, west of Revelstoke, B.C. ; common on the International 

 Boundary between Trail and Cascade, B.C., in the summer of 1902; 

 common both at Fernie and Elko, B.C., in 1904, and abundant and 

 breeding at Penticton, B.C., in April, 1903; not uncommon at 

 Sicamous, Kamloops and Spence bridge, B.C., in May and June, 

 1889. (Spreadborough.) In the neighbourhood of 150-mile House, 

 Cariboo district, both this species and auratus occur and interbreed. 

 From one nest-hole I took seven nestlings which varied from typical 

 C. cafer collaris to nearly typical auratus. (Brooks.) During Bischoff's 

 visit to Sitka a number of these birds were taken there and the 

 specimens are now in the National museum. It has not been taken 

 since. (Nelson.) 



4i3a. Northwestern Flicker. 



Colaptes cafer saturatior (Ridgw.) A. O. U. Check-list, 1886. 



Abundant on the coast of British Columbia. (Streator.) Abun- 

 dant west of Coast range; a number winter in the neighbourhood 

 of Victoria. (Fannin.) A common resident at Chilli wack. (Brooks.) 

 Common at Douglas, Chilliwack and at Huntingdon, B.C.; observed 

 a few on the mountains at Chilliwack lake, also a few along the 

 Chilliwack river and in the hills, and at Burrard inlet; a resident 

 throughout Vancouver island. Nests in holes in dead trees; nesting 

 commenced April 24th, 1893. (Spreadborough.) Noted occasionally 



