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ent resident, and breeds in York Co., N.B. (W. A. Moore.) Said 
to have been formerly common on Prince Edward Island, but I 
saw none. Mr. Earle showed mea stuffed specimen. (Dwight.) 
Taken at Beauport ; a resident in Quebec. (Déonne.) Accidental 
visitant at Montreal, but rare. The nearest place to Montreal 
where I have seen this large woodpecker was at Casselman, Ont., 
about go miles west of the city. (Wzntle.) 
This species is not uncommon in the hills north of Ottawa, 
and is known to breed. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) Muskoka 
and Parry Sound districts seem to be the home of: this species. 
The work done by the pileated woodpecker in cutting into 
dead trees is wonderful. A pair will work all winter at one tree 
cutting it to pieces. I have several times seen stubs that have 
been so cut up that they have broken down. The birds cut deep 
holes in the sides of the trees to get entrance into the soft centre 
when the cuts are continued and lengthened until little of its 
inside remains. (/. Hf. Fleming.) Found quite numerous at 
Whitney on the Parry Sound Railway late in the fall of 1898. (/. 
Hughes-Samuel.) Not common in Algonquin Park in summer ; 
more plentiful in winter. (Spreadborough.) A rare resident in 
the neighbourhood of London. (W. &. Saunders.) 
Rare resident in heavy timber, but becomes more abundant to 
the northward. According to Hutchins it has been taken in 
January at Gloucester House in Lat. 50° 31’ N., Long. 96° 03’ W. 
387 miles up the Albany River. (Zhompson-Seton.) This great 
woodpecker is a resident all the yearin the interior of the North- 
west Territor:es, up to Lat. 62° or 63°, rarely appearing near 
Hudson Bay, but frequenting the gloomiest recesses of the forests 
that skirt the Rocky Mountains. (Azchardson.) North to Fort 
Liard;. Lat. 61° \5! rare) (@Koss.), Rare on tre Clearwater) River, 
Atha., Lat., 56° 40’. (/. MW. Macoun.) Common east and west of 
the Coast Range. (ZLord.) Commonin the coast region where it 
breeds; they are not very common on Vancouver Island. (Szveator.) 
Common; but more abundant on the coast. (/annin.) Common 
resident at Chilliwack, B.C.; tolerably common around Lake 
Okanagan, B.C., in winter ; scarce in the Cariboo district, B.C. 
(Brooks.) A few were noted at Banff in 1891; seen at Revel- 
stoke in April, 1890; at Deer Park, Lower Arrow Lake, June 14th, 
1890, and at Robson on the Columbia River, at an altitude of 
4,200 feet, June 26th, 1890 ; and quite common between Trail and 
Cascade, on the goth parallel, in 1902; observed everywhere in 
