270 Cameron, Birds of Custer & Davenport Counties, Mont. [juiy 



Powder River. On July 31, 1905, when observing a heronry on an island 

 of the Yellowstone, in Dawson County, a kingfisher flew to the island and 

 was apparently one of a pair nesting there. On September 21, 1906, I 

 saw a kingfisher take a fish from Seven Mile Creek (Glendive). 



86. Dryobates villosus. Hairy Woodpecker. — Tolerably common. 

 Must breed in the pine hills, as it is found there all the year round. On 

 Cedar Creek, which runs into the Yellowstone, near Glendive, its short 

 sharp screech and flight in loops attracted my attention nearly every day 

 when hunting deer. According to Mr. Jenkins, this form is D. v. monticola. 

 (See Jenkins's 'Variation in the Hairy Woodpe.cker, ' Auk, Vol. XXIII, 

 p. 168.) 



87. Dryobates pubescens oreoecus. Batchelder's Woodpecker. — 

 Tolerably common. Resident. Must breed in the pine hills. This wood- 

 pecker is much in evidence during winter on cedar fence posts, in which it 

 bores numerous holes searching for food under the bark. 



88. Ceophloeus pileatus. Pileated Woodpecker. — Rare. One seen 

 April 25, 1894; another August 12, 1898. 



89. Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Red-headed Woodpecker. — Abun- 

 dant. Commonest woodpecker here, nesting indifferently in river valleys 

 or pine hills. Arrives about middle of May, leaving about middle of Sep- 

 tember. A pair which came regularly to my water troughs in Dawson 

 County, during August, 1904, were accompanied by only a single young 

 one. When a hawk appeared they made an extraordinary commotion, 

 and others of the brood might have been taken by hawks. In June, 1905, 

 three pairs of Red-headed Woodpeckers nested in small holes of high 

 cottonwood branches close to the ferryman's house at Terry, and many 

 pairs used the holes in dead pines on my ranch (Dawson County) and 

 vicinity for the same purpose. 



90. Colaptes auratus. Flicker. — Common. Breeds in pine hills or 

 river valleys indifferently. Nested on both my ranches. 



91. Colaptes cafer collaris. Red-shafted Flicker. — Common. Cap- 

 tain Thorne sent twenty-five skins to Dr. J. A. Allen, American Museum 

 of Natural History, who replied as follows:' "The series as a whole is one 

 of special interest, the specimens all coming from localities within the 

 range of the interbreeding of C. auratus and C. cafer. There is not a speci- 

 men in the whole series that is strictly C. cafer, though several approach 

 true cafer very strongly. The greater part are much more cafer than 

 auratus. In a few the characters of the two species are about equally 

 represented. In one or two the auratus characters prevail. No two 

 specimens are quite alike, while the combination of characters is often 

 peculiar and very interesting." 



(To be continued.) 



