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Harlequin Ducks on Maine Coast.— On October 19th 

 current, Sumner Robinson and Wilmot R. Evans, Jr., both of this 

 locality, shot three male and one female Harlequin Ducks in Jericho 

 Bay. They were shot off the Black Horse Ledge, and were on the 

 wing coming in to Eider Duck decoys. Another female was 

 wounded, but not taken, and another male seen. On the same date 

 the same parties took one male Northern Eider Duck. 



Charles F. Jenney. 



Boston, Mass., October 24, 1908. 



A Redheaded Woodpecker. — On the morning of the second 

 day of September, I was notified that a pair of strange birds was 

 in the old orchard on the hill that rose above the house where I was 

 staying. Catching up my glass, I hastened to the orchard, but be- 

 fore I reached it one of the birds had flown ; the one remaining 

 proved to be an adult Redheaded Woodpecker. In the afternoon 

 and on the next day I again saw an adult bird. There was a family 

 of the birds, for I saw one young Redhead on a telephone post and 

 another in the orchard. The heads and necks of the immature 

 birds were brown, and their breasts were suffused with the same 

 color, but the wing secondaries were white. The old birds were 

 vei-y shy, and as soon as I drew near enough to see them without 

 my glass they flew away. On one of my visits to the orchard I sur- 

 prised the bird and myself by going under the apple tree on which he 

 was working. Immediately he flew away, uttering as he took wing 

 his loud call, which reminded me somewhat of the rattle of the King- 

 fisher. Redheaded Woodpeckers are striking-looking birds, and 

 the pure white of their bodies and wing patches makes them very 

 conspicuous in flight. These birds remained about the place four 

 days, and I feel myself to have been very fortunate in seeing these 

 rare visitants, which doubtless tarried there to feast on the black 

 cherries, which were produced in the greatest abundance, and of 



which they are extremely fond. 



Sara C. Eastman. 



Portland, Me., November i, 1908. 



