CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 337 
year. It could scarcely be called common. (Grinnell.) Appar- 
ently common at Cook inlet, Alaska, 1900. Quite rare at the base 
of the Alaskan peninsula, only two seen in 1902. (Osgood.) One 
specimen collected at Homer, Kenai peninsula, Alaska, was the 
only one observed. It is undoubtedly rare as the natives had never 
seen the species before. (/vggins.) One taken at Haines and one at 
Glacier, Alaska; noted or taken at several places in the Yukon 
valley. (Bishop.) 
BREEDING Notes.—According to Oliver Davis’ ‘“‘Nests and Eggs 
of N. A. Birds,” nothing has been published regarding the nest and 
eggs of this species. It therefore gives me pleasure to make the 
following record of a set in my collection of five eggs which were 
taken with the parent bird on May 29th, 1897, at Peel river that 
runs into the mouth of the Mackenzie river. Nest, a hole in a coni- 
ferous tree about ten feet from the ground. The eggs average 
‘90 x 65. The Rev. I. O. Stringer secured the parent and found 
its crop filled with seeds and worms. (W. Raine.) 
401b. Alpine Three-toed Woodpecker. 
Picoides americanus dorsalis BAIRD. 1870. 
A specimen of what I consider to be this species was procured 
at Fort Norman on the Mackenzie river. (Ross.) Mountains 
east of Coast range; north to Cassiar. (Fannin.) A specimen of 
this form was taken at Huntingdon in the Fraser river valley on 
the 49th parallel, on October 4th, 1901; one observed at Fernie, 
B.C., April 25th, 1904. (Spreadborough.) What was likely this 
species was observed on the shore of Shuswap lake, above Kamloops, 
B.C., in June, 1889. The bird had a nest in a dead tree, and was a 
three-toed woodpecker with a white back. A specimen was not 
obtained. (Macown.) This form is known to range from Fort 
Kenai and the southeastern Alaskan coast and Fort Simpson on 
the Mackenzie river (lat. 62°) south to Oregon and Arizona. In 
well plumaged summer birds a longitudinal white band begins with 
the nuchal collar and extends down the back to the rump, with no 
trace, or at most a very slight one, of transverse barring. (Nelson.) 
This form is abundant in the ‘interior wherever there are wooded 
districts. It rarely visits the vicinity of St. Michael. (Turner.) 
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