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JfBSTB AND EGGS OF 



and evenly chiseled; the average depth was about fourteen inches, by five in 

 diameter at the widest point, while the diameter of the exterior hole varied from 

 1.25 to 1.60 inches. The labors of excavating the nest and those of incubation are 

 bared alternately by both sexes. Mr. Brewster gives the eggs as numbering from 



401. YKLLOW-BKLLIED SAPSUCKER lrrm Beat). 



five to seven in a set, and varying considerably in shape, some being oblong, others 

 decidedly elliptical. They are pure white in color, and there is much less of that 

 fine polish than in eggs of the other species of Woodpeckers he had examined. The 

 size is given as .85x.60. 



402/1. RED-NAPED SAPSTTCKER. ,s'/*/f///-f///n/.v niriiix tnn-lidlix Bainl. 

 Dtat Rocky Mountain region, west to the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges; south 

 into Mexico. 



The late Major Charles E. Bendire, U. S. A., met with this race of x. rnrius 

 sparingly distributed in various portions of the Blue Mountains of Oregon, \v 

 IngtoD Territory and Idaho, and as far west as the eastern slope or th<> Cascade 

 Range in Southern Oregon, in the Klamath Lake region, where it was replaci-d M 

 Nphi/rapint* niter, the two species overlapping each othrr, but not intergrading, HIM) 

 remaining perfectly distinct.He found it breeding in June, nesting in cavities of live 



Bull. Nutt. Club. I. pp. 68-70. 



