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hood was attractive to both the Chickadees and the Downy Wood- 

 peckers. They came every day to the suet tree in front of the 

 house — sometimes many times a day — until the suet was gone — 

 toward the end of June. After the supply in the trees was ex- 

 hausted I noted them on the ground picking from among the grass 

 blades the crumbs of suet that had fallen. Once while watching a 

 Hairy Woodpecker feed the young, I noted a red squirrel occupying 

 a Woodpecker cavity within three yards of the Hairy Woodpeck- 

 er's nest. Most of the time I made observations here, a little, red 

 head was thrust well out of the entrance to the nest and two bright 

 eyes kept careful watch of all that transpired. Thus far I have 

 never known a Woodpecker or a Chickadee to use the same nest- 

 cavity Uw'iCQ.— Cordelia J. Stanwood, Ellsworth, Me., Od. 77, igio. 



Notes on the Pileated Woodpecker.— The Pileated 

 Woodpecker is a shy bird of the woods. Its hearing is very acute, 

 and it usually flies silently away before an approaching person gets 

 in sight of it. Oct. 19th, while at home and in the house, I heard 

 the call of the Pileated Woodpecker. In front of the house is the 

 field, and in the rear, the pasture with a number of large maples 

 near the house. As I stepped to the back door, I saw a full sized 

 Pileated Woodpecker going up the trunk of a large maple near the 

 house. ^ [A little later it flew some distance to a clump of trees by 

 the highway and sang. I heard it sing again the next day and 

 again Nov. ist. This species appears about the size of a large 

 Hawk. It is brownish black, has a white stripe on each side of the 

 neck, and has a very conspicuous bright scarlet crest. As this 

 beautiful bird goes bobbing up a tree trunk, it is one of the never- 

 to-be-forgotten sights in nature. The call is a slowly repeated kiik, 

 kiik, kuk, kiik, kuk. Its song is clearer, sweeter and more musical 

 than that of the Flicker, but to the untrained ear the songs of the 

 two species are indistinguishable. — D. IV. Sweet, Avon, Me. 



Notes on Winter Birds. — The Snow Buntings, Redpolls 

 and Pine^ Grosbeaks appeared in October, the Redpolls being 

 abundant and in large flocks. October 27th, I saw a flock of a hun- 



