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bourne ('87, p. 104) has recorded an adult female and a young 

 bird below Hermit Lake in Tuckermaii's Ravine (3,960 feet) 

 and another in the Great Gulf on Mt. Washington, July 5, 

 1886. On the Carter Range, in the latter part of summer I 

 have a few times met with the bird, and on December 27, 1900, 

 one was seen among the large trees in Carter Notch just above 

 yie lakes, at about 3,400 feet, on the southern slope of Carter 

 Dome. There were about 18 inches of snow on the ground at 

 that time, but evidently the bird was as much at home at this 

 high level in winter as in summer. Frank Bolles ('93b, p. 155) 

 notes having observed both kinds of three-toed woodpeckers in 

 summer, among the dense spruce forests which clothe the top 

 of Mt. Passaconaway (4,116 ft.), which appears to be the south- 

 ernmost New Hampshire record for this species in summer. 

 To the north of the White Mountains in the dense evergreen 

 forests, it is a rare resident, and Mr. William Brewster ('98a) 

 has given an excellent account of a pair at Lake Umbagog, 

 whose nest, containing a partial complement of two eggs, was 

 found on June 2, 1897. 



133. Sphyrapicus varius (Linn.). YELLOW-BELLIED 

 SAPSUCKER. 



A fairly common spring and fall migrant, and a less common 

 summer resident. To the north of the White Mountains, about 

 Lake Umbagog and in the saturated forests of the northern re- 

 gions of the state, it is a common summer bird ; in the White 

 Mountains, too, it is not infrequent in the damp, sub-Canadian 

 woods of paper and yellow T birch, spruce, balsam, and hemlock 

 below 3,000 feet, but seems rather local, and becomes still more 

 local south of the mountains, being confined more or less to cold 

 swamps during May and June. Thus at Intervale, it is rare ; 

 and on only a few occasions have I observed it in the woods on 

 the immediately surrounding low mountains. Frank Bolles 

 found, it common at Chocorua, and I have also noted several 

 birds in a favorable swamp near his cottage. In the central 

 parts of the state it is also found here and there in summer, as 

 at Bridgewater, Wonalancet, Ossipee, Webster. Mr. Ralph 

 Hoffmann has observed a few in a swamp at Alstead in the 



