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we were operating at a distance of ten feet, it often being necessary for one 

 to stand beside the tree, and even tap on it, to detain her. 



The nest located on May 22 was at a height of about ten feet. The 

 cavity measured 10| inches from the lower edge of entrance to bottom. 

 The entrance measured If inches in height and If inches in width. The 

 first set of four eggs measured: .99 X .77, 1.01 X .79, .99 X .79, 1.00 X 

 .76; the second set of five eggs measured: .99 X .80, .97 X .77, .98 X .80, 

 .95 X .76, .97 X .80. 



Within some five hundred feet of the nest that was located on May 25, 

 there was a nest hole of the year before, quite possibly having belonged 

 to the same pair of birds. It was also in a live balsam with a dead heart, 

 at a height of about eight feet. One old nest hole, which quite evidently 

 belonged to this species, was only about two feet from the ground. On 

 June 6 a nest hole about one half completed, was found in a live balsam 

 with dead heart, in open, mixed woods. For some reason this had been 

 abandoned. Some four or five additional pairs of these birds were observed 

 during the first two weeks of June, but further nests were not located. 



The somewhat limited data secured seem to give prominence to several 

 facts in the nesting of this woodpecker in the region under consideration. 

 Apparently nest sites are selected indiscriminately, in dead stubs in open 

 cleared ground or burnt barrens, and in the woods, where nests are often 

 in dead-hearted live trees. The birds have a remarkably strong attach- 

 ment for their nests, as evidenced by re-laying in nest holes from which 

 eggs had been removed, and their disregard of the immediate presence of 

 intruders. The male evidently performs his full share of the work of 

 incubation, as well as care of young. New nest holes are apparently dug 

 each year, and these may not be in the immediate vicinity of nests of the 

 previous year. The site selected tends to be low, only one nest having 

 been noted at a height of over ten feet, while one, as noted, was as low as 

 two feet. Entrances to nest holes are strongly beveled at the lower edge, 

 forming a sort of " door-step," and more or less at sides and even top. 

 While this is true in some cases with the Northern Hairy and some other 

 woodpecker excavations which we have examined, it has not proved so 

 frequent or pronounced. With experience, one can usually identify the 

 nest hole of this species with comparative certainty, by this one feature. 



Tyrannus tyrannus. Kingbird. — At least one pair noted each year. 

 A nest containing a full complement of three eggs on July 1, 1918, was 

 built in a dead spruce on a fence line. 



Nuttallornis borealis. Olive-sided Flycatcher. — A nest found 

 partly built, on a horizontal branch of a balsam, about thirty-five feet 

 from the ground, in open woods, on June 19, 1918, contained two eggs on 

 June 26. As no more eggs had been laid by June 29, it appeared that this 

 was the full set. 



Empidonax flaviventris. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. — Addi- 

 tional nests were found, one on June 21 and two on June 27, 1918, each 

 containing four eggs, one of the two latter sets being well incubated, the 

 others fresh. 



