262 BoLLES on the Tellow-bcllicd Woodpecker. [Jw'y 



4.1^1;. I squeak, Hummer flies in and alights. 



4.59. Female has been gone 90 minutes. 



5. Male motionless. Young in next tree. 

 i;.o6. Male dips and flies away on seeing me. 



:5.o7. Young comes in and dips 16 times from cup No. 3. 



5.13. After dipping in holes goes to cup and dips 5 times. 



5.14. Female comes from south, young flies south. 



5. 1 1^. Female touches cup 3, then goes to cup i and dips 13 times. 



5.16. Goes out on limb. 



15.20. She drills, and continues to drill a long time. 



5.3V Hummer comes, alights, flies away. 



15.36. Young comes and dips. Female goes. 



5. 38. Young dips 7 times in cup No. 3, then in several new holes. 



5.41. Male comes. 



15.44. Young dips in cup No. 3, 7 times, flies off". 



5.46. Male rattles around over cups and bark, but thus far I have not 



seen him drink from cups. 



15.49. Young returns, dips 3 times from cup 3. He always wipes his bill 



in a drill after drinking syrup. 



^.55. Young dips again in cup 3 and flies south. 



15.56. Male flies in and clings close to cup. 



6. Hummer near. 



6.02. Male dipping and preening. 



6.0S. Young comes from south. 



6.12. Male and young dipping. 



6.18. A Hermit Thrush alights on the limb from which the Woodpeck- 

 ers always take flight. Young flies at him twice and drives him 

 away and out of the tree. 



6.30. Young still dipping; I go home. 



On July 24 instead of going to 'Orchard No. i' as I shall call 

 that already described, I went first to another half a mile northeast 

 of it, where, in August, 1889, I had seen Sapsuckers drilling a 

 canoe birch, and Hummingbirds and a Downy Woodpecker appar- 

 ently sharing in the profits of the tree. 



I reached Orchard No. 2 at 6.45 a.m. The tree in use last year 

 was nearly dead. Two neighboring birches showing scars of 

 earlier years were quite dead. All stood on the crest of a kame. 

 About three rods along the ridge to the eastward a red oak and two 

 or three canoe birches were in use by the birds. Five Sapsuckers 

 including a male, female and three young were frolicking and 

 dipping. The male was somewhat rough with the young birds. 

 I stayed until 7.30. Hummingbirds made thirteen visits in that 

 time and were generally allowed to dip freely. A Black-and-white 



