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(Macfarlane.) One specimen at Athabasca Landing, Alta., May 
25th, 1888. Common on Methye Portage; not rare between Methye 
lake and Isle a la Crosse. (J. MM. Macoun.) Obtained only east of 
the Coast range. (Lord.) Common at Ducks, near Kamloops, 
B.C., in August, when they are on their southward migration. 
(Streator.) East of the Coast range; resident. (Fannin.) Com- 
mon in suitable localities around Lake Okanagan, B.C., in winter; 
scarce throughout the winter in the Cariboo district, B.C.; the 
greater number seemed to emigrate southwards. This should be 
the western form lately described by Mr. Bangs, but specimens 
taken seemed to correspond in measurement with the typical form. 
(Brooks.) Very little appears to be known concerning the move- 
ments and habitat of this bird, especially in the north. I secured a 
single specimen which was brought to me from Fort Reliance on 
the upper Yukon. (Nelson.) An adult male was taken on the 
Malchatna river, Alaska by McKay in 1883. (Osgood.) A young 
bird of this species was taken on the bank of Six-mile river, Yukon. 
(Bishop.) 
BREEDING NoTes.—Frequently seen in the fall in the county 
of Renfrew, Ont., more early in the county of Leeds. In the lat- 
ter county I have once seen this bird in a thick wood of pine and 
hemlock as late as the middle of May, and as the locality was rough 
and favourable to its habits, it may possibly have bred there, though 
I could not locate a rest. This was near Landon bay, River St. 
Lawrence. (Rev. C. J. Young.) This woodpecker has a habit of 
sometimes nesting in colonies. I saw the nests of such a colony 
near Sand lake in 1896; there were six or seven nests, each cut into 
the trunk of a living cedar, just below the first branch, and usually 
eight or ten feet from the ground. The cedars were in a dense 
forest overlooking a small stream that empties into Sand lake. 
Four eggs seem to be the full set. The young are hatched by the 
Ist of June. (J. H. Fleming.) A common summer resident at Lake 
St. Joseph, Muskoka, Ont. From there I received a set of six eggs 
taken May 30th, 1899. Nest, a hole in a decayed pine tree fifteen 
feet from the ground. (W. Raine.) 
401. American Three-toed Woodpecker. 
Picoides americanus BREHM. 1831. 
Common and resident throughout the wooded portion of Labrador. 
(Packard.) Scarcely so common as the preceding species in New- 
