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Young.) On May 2tst, 1900, 1 found this bird nesting abundantly 
in the woods north of Waterloo, Ont. Almost every decayed 
stub or broken tree contained a nest of five to six eggs. (W. | 
Raine.) Nests in trees near Ottawa, Ont. Nest always in a hole 
in a tree or stump, composed of chips and dust. Eggs four to 
five, pure white. (G. RX. White.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Ten; two taken at Ottawa by Mr. F. A. Saunders; three at 
Bracebridge, Ont., one at Medicine Hat, Assa., and one at Banff, 
Alta., by Mr. W. Spreadborough ; one taken at Edmonton, Alta., 
by Mr. Dowling. 
One set of eggs taken at Port Hope, Ont., May 30th, 1899, by 
Mr. M. Meeking. Nest in a cavity in an apple tree in an orchard. 
Eggs laid on chips at the bottom of the cavity four feet from the 
ground. 
394a. Gairdner’s Woodpecker. 
Dryobates pubescens gairdnert (AvuD.) Ripew. 1885. 
General west of Coast Range. (Zord.) Rather common 
throughout the coast region; breeds. (S¢veator.) A common resident 
west of the Coast Range; winters on Vancouver Island. (/anmin.) 
Common resident at Chilliwack, B.C. (Bvooks.) At Revelstoke 
this species was found with Batchelder’s woodpecker, but further 
down the Columbia River at Robson and Deer Park, the speci- 
mens taken were all of this form. It was next found at Agassiz 
in the Fraser River valley, and at Chilliwack and Huntington, 
B.C.,'in 1901. On Vancouver Island it is resident and very 
abundant. (Spreadborough.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Eleven ; one taken at Robson on the Columbia River, one at 
Agassiz, and four at Chilliwack in the Fraser River valley, B.C., 
also four at Victoria, Vancouver Island, all by Mr. Spread- 
borough. 
3940. Batchelder’s Woodpecker. 
Dryobates pubescens homorous (CaB.) RrpGw. 1896. 
Very common throughout the interior of British Columbia along 
the C.P.R. (Stveator.) Common around Lake Okanagan, B.C., 
