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and 2 at*the entrance. The four youngsters were nearly grown 
and fledged, and consequently were much crowded in this narrow 
chamber.. Three of them were precisely like the mother-bird in 
colour and the fourth differed only in having over each ear a cockade 
of rich yellow. (E. T. Seton.) A plentiful species in Ontario 
where I have met with it both in summer and winter. At the latter 
season it is often seen on wood piles in the vicinity of houses. It 
breeds along the St. Lawrence and northward. Unlike the other 
woodpeckers it isan early breeder, commencing its nest-hole the end 
of April and usually having its complement of eggs laid by May 6th. 
Most of the nests I have seen have been in wet places or near water, 
and almost all were in white ash trees, from thirty to fifty feet from 
the ground. Two nests were in elm trees and one in a telegraph 
pole by the roadside not more than ten feet from the ground. In this 
nest-hole the young were hatched by the 22nd of May. (Rev. C. J. 
Young.) Breeds in fair numbers in summer and was formerly our 
most common woodpecker in winter, but is now outnumbered by 
the downy. Not yet observed to use dead trees for nesting. This 
species drums on resonant limbs in spring, but not so commonly 
as the downy woodpecker. It is an exceedingly early breeder, 
excavating its dwelling-house in April, and indeed often laying 
the eggs in the same month, while large young are always to be 
found by May 24th. (W. E. Saunders.) Found breeding at Long 
Lake, Manitoba, June 16th, 1894. On May 31st, 1901, found a 
nest containing four eggs at Yorktown, Sask. The eggs were laid 
in a hole in a tree about ten feet from the ground. I found another 
nest containing six eggs in a hole in a poplar about 15 feet from the 
ground. I am not aware that the nest and eggs of this species 
have been previously described so will give the measurement of the 
egg. The average size of 18 specimens before me is .98 x .70. (W. 
Raine.) 
393c. Harris Woodpecker. 
Dryobates villosus harris (AubD.) RipGw. 1885. 
One shot in lat. 49°, August 24th, 1874. Found only in the Rocky 
mountains. (Coues.) Vancouver island, Sumas and Osoyoos; win- 
ters on Vancouver island. (Lord.) Abundant everywhere through- 
out the coast region: breeds. *'(Streator.) West of the Coast tatge, 
