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on the stub he emerged; Fi 
and proceeding to his 
drumming ground above, he 
rolled repeatedly. By and 
by the female answered in 
the distance with the plimp 
or plick note. Soon she ar- 
rived upon the nesting stub, 
whereupon Mr. Hairy took 
himself off promptly, and 
Mrs. Hairy entered the nest 
and settled to her eggs. Or 
so you would have supposed, 
wouldn't you? By the aid 
Guesmteen spikes: ‘60's,’ 
and a rope, I climbed to the 
nest, thirty-five feet up. 
With a small hand-axe I en- 
larged the entrance (sacri- 
ficing incidentally a thumb- 
nail, and giving sad evidence 
of the sway of “mortal 
mind”) to find only one 
fresh egg, fourteen inches 
down. 
Of course it was disap- 
pointing, but the egg was a 
pearl, so transparent that one 
could see the very outlines 
. : 5 NESTING SITE OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN HAIRY 
of the imprisoned yolk. \WOODPECKER 
Taken in Stevens County Photo by J. H. Bowles 
No. 162. 
CABANIS’S, WOODPECKER. 
A. O. U. No. 393d. Dryobates villoses hyloscopus (Cab.). 
Synonym.—Rocky Mountarn Hairy WooppecKker (name now restricted 
to preceding form). 
Description.—Similar to D. v. monticola but averaging smaller; lores chiefly 
or entirely white; underparts more or less soiled whitish; some few white spots 
