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abundantly on the shores of Lake Ontario, laying never more than 

 seven eggs at the end of a tunnel in a bank. The tunnel is often 

 three or four feet in length. {W. Raine.) Nests taken at Ottawa, 

 Ont., always in a hole in a bank from four to eight feet deep. {G. R. 

 White.) This bird digs a hole in a sandbank from three to six feet 

 deep. There the space is made larger and is lined with crabs' 

 (Carambus) shells. I have a set of seven eggs with embryos, taken 

 on May 24th, another of five fresh eggs taken June nth and I 

 found six young birds in their nest on June 20th. The kingfisher 

 will make its nest either on the banks of rivers or in the middle of 

 fields. (A. L. Garneau.) 



Common resident throughout Vancouver island. Nests in holes 

 in banks, usually near water, but I have seen a few nests more than 

 half a mile from water. (Spreadborough.) 



Order PICI. Woodpeckers, Wrynecks, &c. 



Family XXXIV. PICID^. Woodpeckers. 

 CLXVIL DRYOBATES Boie. 1826. 

 393. Hairy Woodpecker. 



Dryobates villosus (Linn.) Cabanis. 1863. 



One seen at Hebert river, December 8th, and one at Shulee, 

 January 2nd, Cumberland county, N.S. Winter of 1897-98. (C. H. 

 Morrell.) Common resident in Nova Scotia. {H. F. Tufts.) 

 Common migrant and rather rare winter resident at Toronto, Ont. 

 My records are all between October nth and April 4th, and it does 

 not appear to breed here. This form is the one occuring in southern 

 Ontario, at least south of Lake Nipissing and I have not found 

 leucomelas. (/. H. Fleming.) Strangly enough, although the dis- 

 tribution of the present bird is eastern, and although in northern 

 Alaska and the interior of British America it is replaced by a large 

 northern form, yet the typical villosus also occurs in British Columbia 

 and thence north along the southeastern coast of Alaska. (Nelson.) 

 Specimens in the Geological Survey Museum collected by Spread- 

 borough at Bracebridge, Ont., Edmonton, Alta., and Elko, B.C., by 

 Tufts at Algonquin Park, Ont., and F. A. Saunders at Ottawa, Ont., 



