CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 309 
Duncan’s, Vancouver Island, by Dr. Hasell; east and west of 
Coast Range, B.C. (Fannin.) This, the only species of wood- 
pecker detected by me in the Kowak region, was resident through- 
out the year. It could scarcely be called common. (GrimmelJ.) 
Seen near Cascade, B.C., on the 4gth parallel and taken on Sophie 
Mountain at an altitude of 4,000 feet, July 12th, 1902. (Spread- 
borough.) Collected at Haines Mission and Glacier, Lynn Canal. 
In the Yukon valley at Six-mile River; three specimens near 
Miles Cafion ; two on the Lewes River, Yukon district, and two 
at Circle City, Alaska. (Bzshop.) 
BREEDING Notes.—According to Oliver Davis’ ‘Nests and 
Eggs of N. A. Birds,” nothing has been published regarding the 
nest and eggs of this species. It therefore gives me pleasure to 
make the following record of a set in my collection of five eggs 
which were taken with the parent bird on May 2gth, 1897, at Peel 
River that runs into the mouth of the Mackenzie River. Nest, 
a hole in a coniferous tree about ten feet from the ground. The 
eggs average :90 x ‘65. The Rev J. O. Stringer secured the parent 
and found its crop filled with seeds and worms. (W. Raine.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Four; one taken by Mr. Spreadborough near the International 
boundary at Cascade, B.C.; three in Alberta, two at Banff, and 
one in the foothills south of Calgary, Alta., by Mr. G. F. Dippie. 
Mr. Dippie’s Calgary specimen extends the range of this species 
eastward to the foothills so it is very likely that most if not all of 
the Rocky Mountain birds belong to this form. 
4016. Alpine Three-toed Woodpecker. 
Picoides americanus dorsalis BAIRD. 1870. 
A specimen of what I consider to be this species was procured 
at Fort Norman on the Mackenzie River. (oss.) This form is 
known to range from Fort Kenai and the southeastern Alaskan 
coast and Fort Simpson on the Mackenzie River (Lat. 62°) south 
to Oregon and Arizona. In well plumaged summer birds a longi- 
tudinal white band begins with the nuchal collar and extends 
down the back to the rump, with no trace, or at most a very slight 
one, of transverse barring. (JVelson.) This form is abundant in 
the interior wherever there are wooded districts. It rarely visits 
the vicinity of St. Michael. (Zurner.) Mountains east of Coast 
