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southwestern part of the state, and Mr. G. H. Thayer writes 

 me that about Mt. Monadnock it is a regular summer resident 

 in the heavy timber about the base of the mountain. At 

 Charlestown, Mr. W. M. Buswell writes me that he saw a fe- 

 male Sapsucker on Nov. 10, 1898, and that it was seen there 

 every few days until Jan. 5, 1899, when he shot it to make sure 

 of its identity. Its wintering so far north is probably quite ac- 

 cidental. It is now believed that the specimen recorded by' 

 Baird, Brewer and Ridgway ('74, vol. II, p. 543) as ,S. v. nu- 

 chalis, taken by Mr. William Brewster near L,ake Umbagog in 

 New Hampshire, was merely an individual variation of the east- 

 ern bird. 



Dates : April to October 20 (winter). 



134. Ceophloeus pileatus abieticola Bangs. NORTH- 

 ERN PILEATED WOODPECKER. 



A rather rare permanent resident of the sub-Canadian mixed 

 forests, up to about 3,000 feet on the mountains. In the south- 

 ern part of the state, the bird is now very rare, but along the 

 ridge of land bordering the Connecticut from Monadnock to 

 the White Mountains it is rather frequently seen, nor is it us- 

 ually very shy. I have seen three birds, a pair and a single, 

 in one forenoon (July 9, 1894) at Walpole on the hills just east 

 of the Connecticut River, and know of other birds observed 

 there. Mr. G. H. Tha}^er has also found it nesting in the big 

 timber on Monadnock. About Lancaster, Whitefield and Jef- 

 ferson on the west and north of the White Mountains, it is not 

 uncommon, and Mr. E. A. Preble notes it occasionally in the 

 heavy forests of Ossipee. To the north of the White Moun- 

 tains it inhabits the coniferous forests and has been observed by 

 various persons about Lake Umbagog, where among the water- 

 killed trees, it is said to be common. On the White Mountains 

 it appears to be rare, though traces of its work are often met 

 with, especially in the denser primeval forests. In one large 

 swamp on Mt. Bartlett, I found a dead tree of a foot or more in 

 diameter through whose trunk these birds had drilled a hole 

 large enough to admit one's arm. 



