2l6 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



cessfuUy reared their brood in Newton in the summer of 1901. Mr. Walter 

 Deane and I visited their nest on June 27 and saw both birds enter it repeatedly, 

 bearing, in the tips of their bills, small, dark objects which looked like beetles. 

 Whenever one of the parents came to the nest the young invariably set up a 

 chorus of shrill, eager cries, but they did not once show themselves at the en- 

 trance hole which was about twenty feet above the ground in a small red maple. 

 This tree, or rather stub, for it was so completely stripped of bark and branches 

 that it closely resembled a telegraph pole, stood in an open field on the borders 

 of a newly made street, but at no gi^eat distance from a knoll wooded with oaks, 

 maples and chestnuts, where the Woodpeckers frequently alighted just before 

 and after visiting the nest. 



Besides notes relating to the great flight of 1881 — and its aftermath — my 

 record-books mention the following instances of the occurrence of the Red-headed 

 Woodpecker in the Cambridge Region : — 



1866, May 20. I saw a beautiful adult bird among some oaks on the Plagg 

 estate near the Trapelo road in Waltham. 



1S72, March 26. I examined a mature specimen which had been killed that 

 morning by a Mr. Lee in the oak and beech woods on the Tudor place at Fresh Pond. 



1876. At least nine different birds were reported to me as shot during October 

 and November in Watertown and Newton. 



1878. Several Red-headed Woodpeckers were taken in Belmont and Watertown. 

 Mr. C. F. Batchelder has one that was killed in the former town on October 5 of this 

 year by a boy who saw other birds of the same species at the same time. 



1883. A pair attempted to breed in Cambridge. [This has been referred to 

 above.] 



1893, May. In early May Mr. John Cullen found a flock of six birds in Water- 

 town and secured two of them. 



1896, May 16. A Red-headed Woodpecker was seen near Mystic Pond by Mr. 

 Walter Faxon. 



1898, September 21. One was met with in Lexington by Mr. Walter Faxon. 



1900, December 2. Mr. Walter Faxon noted a Red-headed Woodpecker near 

 Mystic Pond, Arlington. 



1900. Two birds were observed at frequent intervals between October 31 and 

 December 16 in a cemetery near the Lower Mystic Pond, Arlington, by Mr. Richard 

 S. Eustis and Mr. A. Vincent Kidder. 



1901. On April i Miss Blanche Kendall saw an immature Woodpecker of this 

 species among the fine old oaks and hickories at Payson Park, Belmont. About four 

 weeks later (on the 27th) she found two fully mature birds in the same place. She 

 was assured by one of iier friends that several Red-headed Woodpeckers had passed 

 the preceding winter in this grove. 



1901, May 21. Mr. George C. Deane met with two adult birds in the oak and 

 beech woods at the southwestern extremity of Fresh Pond. 



