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This species is rarer than the preceding but is seen in the 
vicinity of Ottawa every autumn and doubtless breeds to the 
north of the city. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) This also is a 
northern species but is seldom taken in southern Ontario in the 
autumn though commoner northward. (Mc/lwraith.) Rare in the 
Parry Sound and Muskoka districts, only appearing in winter. 
Mr. Handy sent me a pair taken at Emsdale. One specimen of 
this species was shot on Well’s Hill near Toronto, November 16th, 
1901. It was seen in company with another, probably its mate. 
(J. H. Fleming.) While at Whitney during November and 
December, 1898, I looked very carefully for this species but only 
succeeded in taking one, which was feeding on a yellow birch in 
company with a party of P. arcticus. I obtained a second specimen 
of this species from the same place a few weeks later. (/. Hughes- 
Samuel.) Very rare in central Manitoba but probably general in 
the north and east. (Zhompson-Seton.) This bird exists in all the 
forests of spruce-fir lying between Lake Superior and the Arctic 
Sea. It is the most common woodpecker north of Great Slave 
Lake. (Richardson.) A fewspecimens between Athabasca Land- 
ing, Alta., and Lesser Slave River. Rare between Methye Lake 
and Isle a la Crosse. (/. . Macoun.) North of Fort Good Hope 
on the Mackenzie River. (oss.) Much more common than the 
preceding species in Cariboo, B.C., in the winter of 1900. (Bvooks.) 
Common and breeding in burnt woods at Banff, Rocky Mountains, 
alt. 5,500 feet, June, 1891. (Spreadborough.) This is probably 
P. fasciatus, as we have specimens of that species from Banff 
collected by Mr. Dippie in 1895. 
40la. Alaskan Three-toed Woodpecker. 
Picoides americanus fasciatus BAIRD, 1870. 
In the country from Fort Simpson (on the Mackenzie River) 
north and west, including the lower Mackenzie and Anderson 
rivers, and all of northern Alaska, occurs this well marked race, 
which is characterized by the extent and amount of the white 
markings upon the dorsal surface, mainly in the form of barring. 
(Nelson.) Specimens of this form were obtained from Nulato and 
Fort Yukon on the Yukon River. The bird is a resident of the 
wooded districts and common in some localities. (Zurner.) A 
common resident in the spruce zone on the Coast Range ; also 
taken in Washington as far south as Mount Baker. (Bvrooks.) 
