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MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Seven; two taken at Revelstoke; two on the International 
Boundary, B.C.; one taken at Banff, Rocky Mountains; one 
taken at Sicamous, B.C., and one taken at Kamloops, B.C.; all 
by Mr. Spreadborough. 
In the summer of 1902 Mr. Spreadborough took four sets of 
eggs on the International Boundary, two of which contained 
seven eggs and two, six each, 
4138a. Northwestern Flicker. 
Colaptes cafer saturatior (Ripew.) A. O. U. CHECK-LIST, 
1886. 
Abundant on the coast of British Columbia. (Stveator.) Abun- 
dant west of Coast Range ; a number winter in the neighbour- 
hood of Victoria. (a@nnin.) Acommon resident at Chilliwack. 
(Brooks.) Common at Chilliwack and at Huntington, B.C. Ob- 
served a few on the mountains at Chilliwack Lake, also a few 
along the Chilliwack River and in the hills, and at Burrard Inlet; 
a resident throughout Vancouver Island. Nests in holes in dead 
trees ; nesting commenced April 24th, 1893. (Spreadborough.) 
Noted occasionally about Sitka, Alaska, in the dense forest a 
mile or more back from the beach. (Gvimnell.) While cafer seems 
to be exclusively an eastern species, satwrvatior cannot be said to 
confine itself to the coast ; examples from local areas of great 
rainfall in the interior being indistinguishable from ordinary 
Vancouver Island specimens. (Rhoads.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Eleven specimens ; four taken at Chilliwack; three at Agassiz; 
two at Burrard Inlet, B.C., and two at Victoria, Vancouver Island; 
all by Mr. Spreadborough. 
One set of four eggs taken near Victoria, Vancouver Island, by 
Rev. G. W. Taylor. 
Hybrid Flicker. 
All the Colaptes of the Upper Missouri, Yellowstone and Milk 
River appears to be of the hybrid race in which there is every 
degree of departure from the characters of typical auzatus. The 
change begins on the Middle Missouri,as low down, I think as Fort 
Randall, and certainly as low as old Fort Pierre. It isa point of 
