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eggs and two fresh eggs. Another nest near had been robbed and 
broken and a flicker was beginning to excavate a new nest-cavity. 
(A. L. Garneau.) 
413. Red-shafted Flicker. 
Colaptes cafer collaris (VIGORS) NELSON. 1900. 
A specimen of this species was killed to the westward of the Rocky 
mountains by Mr. Douglas. (Richardson.) The most abundant of 
the summer visitors on Vancouver island and in British Columbia. 
(Lord.) Five specimens taken atAshcroft are of this form. (Streator.) 
East of the Coast range; common. (Fannin.) This species was 
common at Banff in the spring of 1891; breeding at Devil lake and 
seen eating ants above the timber line on Mount Aylmer, Aug. 6th, 
1891; common at Revelstoke on the Columbia, and down that river 
to Deer Park and Robson; also common and breeding in Eagle 
pass, west of Revelstoke, B.C.; common on the International 
Boundary between Trail and Cascade, B.C., in the summer of 1902; 
common both at Fernie and Elko, B.C., in 1904, and abundant and 
breeding at Penticton, B.C., in April, 1903; not uncommon at 
Sicamous, Kamloops and Spence bridge, B.C., in May and June, 
1889. (Spreadborough.) In the neighbourhood of 150-mile House, 
Cariboo district, both this species and auratus occur and interbreed. 
From one nest-hole I took seven nestlings which varied from typical 
C. cafer collaris to nearly typical auratus. (Brooks.) During Bischoft’s 
visit to Sitka a number of these birds were taken there and the 
specimens are now in the National museum. It has not been taken 
since. (Nelson.) 
413a. Northwestern Flicker. 
Colaptes cafer saturatior (R1ipGw.) A. O. U. CHECK-LIST, 1886. 
Abundant on the coast of British Columbia. (Streator.) Abun- 
dant west of Coast range; a number winter in the neighbourhood 
of Victoria. (Fannin.) A common resident at Chilliwack. (Brooks.) 
Common at Douglas, Chilliwack and at Huntingdon, B.C.; observed 
a few on the mountains at Chilliwack lake, also a few along the 
Chilliwack river and in the hills, and at Burrard inlet; a resident 
throughout Vancouver island. Nests in holes in dead trees; nesting 
commenced April 24th, 1893. (Spreadborough.) Noted occasionally 
