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entrance about G feet from the oround. At vSisson tlie white-headed 

 woodpecker was seen, the middle of July, by Miss iMerriam, and early 

 in September by li. T. Fisher. In the pine woods bordering- the south 

 end of Shasta Valley I saw half a dozen September 29. 



41 . Picoides arcticus. Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker. 



IJare, but evidently breeding- in the Shasta fir forest of the Canadian 

 zone, where a nude was shot near Wagon Camp by John H. Sage July 



Fig. 38.— Arctic Three-toed Woodjicclier {Picoides arcri'c^s).— Drawn by L. A. Fuertes. 



20. Another was shot by Vernon Bailey July 30 in the gap between 

 Red Cone and the lower end of Gray Butte, where a third individual 

 was seen. 



4L'. Sphyrapicus ruber. Red-breasted Sapsucker. 



Fairly common at Wagon Camp, where specimens were collected in 

 July by John H. Sage and A'ernon Bailey. One was shot in Mud 

 Creek Canyon about the end of July by R. T. Fisher, and one was seen 

 at Sissou July 15 by Miss Merriam. September IS, one was seen in 

 the brush along Little Shasta Creek by W. IT. Osgood. In 1883 C. H. 

 Townsend found the sjjecies "in midsummer iu limited numbers on the 

 heavily pine-timbered slopes of Mounts Shasta and Lassen."' 



