312 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
On June 2oth, 1883, at the spruce bush, I found the nest of a 
sapsucker. It was in a new hole in a green poplar tree, about 30 
feet from the ground. It contained five newly hatched young, 
and in the chamber with them were some of the shells, out of 
which I reconstructed two eggs. The male, length 8%, stomach 
full of ants, the female, length 83%, stomach full of ants, her bill 
also was full of black ants, intended probably as food for the 
young ones; excessively fat; no red feathers at all except 
three or four scattered on the front of the crown, which was 
black. The eggs were each +3 by % and pure white. On 
July 3rd, in spruce bush, found the nest of a sapsucker. 
It was about 20 feet from the ground ina poplar, and facing the 
southeast. Just over the hole was a large limb, which would 
doubtless be of some service asa shelter from the rain. I shot 
the female ; her crown was black, with but a very few red feathers 
in the front, and some of these were tipped with yellow. The 
gizzard was full of wood ants, Hormica rufa. (Thompson-Seton.) 
Excavates its nest-hole usually in living trees ; one that I took 
was in an ironwood and there were nesting-holes of two or three 
previous years in the same tree which had died the previous year. 
(W. E. Saunders.) 1 collected a set of five eggs from a hole ina 
poplar about twelve feet from the ground, at Long Lake, Manitoba, 
June 16th, 1894. (W. Raine.) Always nests in a hole in a tree at 
Ottawa. Nest made of chips and dust. Eggs, four to six, pure 
white. (G. Rk. White.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Seven ; one purchased with the Holman collection in 1885 ; 
two: taken at Ottawaand one at Belleville, Ont., by Prof. Macoun; 
one taken at Wallaceburgh, Ont., by Mr. W. E. Saunders; one 
at Indian Head, Assa., and another at Medicine Hat, Assa., by 
Mr. Spreadborough. 
4024. Red-naped Sapsucker. 
Sphyrapicus varius nuchals Baird. 1858. 
Osyoos and valley of the Columbia. (Lord.) Found common 
everywhere in the interior ; breeds. (Szveator.) I found this bird 
very common east of the Coast Range, especially along the 
Cariboo road. (Fannin.) Generally distributed and breeding 
throughout the interior of British Columbia; did not observe it 
on the coast. (Rhoads.) In the summer of 1891 this species was 
