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about Sitka, Alaska, in the dense forest a mile or more back from 
the beach. (Grinnell.) While cajer seems to be exclusively an 
eastern species, saturatior cannot be said to confine itself to the 
coast; examples from local areas of great rainfall in the interior 
being indistinguishable from ordinary Vancouver island specimens. 
(Rhoads.) 
Hybrid Flicker. 
All the Colaptes of the Upper Missouri, Yellowstone and Milk 
rivers appear to be of the hybrid race in which there is every degree 
of departure from the characters of typical auratus. The change 
begins on the Middle Missouri, as low down, I think as Fort Randall, 
and certainly as low as old Fort Pierre. It is a point of interest 
that this mongrel style overruns into the Saskatchewan region; 
for of two specimens secured at the eastern base of the mountains, 
one had the red quills and ash throat of mexicanus, and the cheek- 
patch mixed with red, while the other was nearly pure auratus. 
(Coues.) 
This form was found breeding in the same locality and under 
the same conditions with pure auratus, in holes in Acer Negundo on 
Walsh ranch, near the mouth of Old Wives creek, May 30th, 1895. 
The nest contained four eggs indistinguishable from those of the 
eastern species. Others were seen at Medicine Hat, Sask., in 1894 
and a number shot. Specimens were taken at Sucker creek, west 
end of Cypress hills, July 1st, 1895; later in the season it was seen 
at Castellated Rocks in southwestern Saskatchewan, in the Milk 
river valley; on July 26th others were seen at Lee creek, near 
Cardston, Alta., and still later at Waterton lake, almost where 
Dr. Coues saw the species in 1874. Numerous specimens were 
taken at Revelstoke, B.C., in the spring of 1890. These varied 
from almost pure auratus to pure cajer collaris. Two specimens 
were shot having all the characters of collaris, but each had a cres- 
centic patch of red on the nape of the neck. 
Two of the so-called hybrid flickers have been taken at Toronto, 
Ont.; one is in the collection of Mr. Ernest Seton, the other is in the 
collection of Mr. Geo. E. Atkinson. (J. H. Fleming.) In the spring 
of 1897 I collected several specimens of flicker at Portage la Prairie 
that were clearly hybrids showing the markings of C. cajfer very con- 
