6 Merriam on Birds of Leivis County, New York. 



eminently a noisy species, filling the woods with their discordant 

 cries, while during and after incubation they are seldom heard, 

 and in the vicinity of the food trees their silence is very remarkable, 

 for never have I heard a note of any description uttered either 

 while in the neighborhood of these trees or in flying to and fro 

 between them and the forests. 



Picoides arcticus. Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker. — 

 This bird is not an uncommon resident in those portions of Lewis 

 County which pertain to the Canadian Fauna ; for they are found 

 both in the Adirondack region and in the coniferous forests border- 

 ing Big Alder and Fish Creeks, in the Tug Hill range. 



Picoides americanus. Banded Three-toed Woodpecker. — 

 This is also a resident species, but is much less common than the 

 foregoing. For an account of its nesting and a description of its 

 eggs see the last Bulletin (Vol. Ill, No. 4, October, 1878, p. 200). 



Hylatomus pileatus. Pileated Woodpecker ; Black Log 

 Cock ; Cock of the Woods. — This splendid species, commonly 

 known among our hunters as the " Black Cock of the Woods," 

 and, once common, is now becoming rare in Lewis County, although 

 it is still a resident of the deep Canadian forests along our eastern 

 border. A few are killed each year in the Adirondack region, and 

 Mr. Daj^an informs me that scarcely a season passes but that two 

 or three specimens are taken in the vicinity of Lyon's Falls, — so 

 near do they approach civilization. 



Centurus carolinus. Red-bellied Woodpecker. — Mr. C. L. 

 Bagg has a mounted specimen of this Woodpecker, which he shot 

 here (Locust Grove, Lewis County) during the winter of 1871 -2. 



Melospiza lincolni. Lincoln's Finch. — In my cabinet is a 

 female specimen of Lincoln's Finch, which I shot here (Locust Grove) 

 May 23, 1873. Mr. Egbert Bagg, Jr., of Utica, on the 13th of June 

 last (1878), took its nest, containing three eggs, at Moose Pond, 

 Hamilton Coimty, N. Y.* (in the Adirondack region, and not 

 many miles distant from Lewis County). As there is no question 

 concerning the identity of this nest (the female parent having been 

 shot and sent to Mr. Robert Ridgway for identificaticni), and since 

 my bird was taken so late as the 23d of May, I think there can be 

 no reasonable doubt of its breeding in Lewis County. 



Cistothorus stellaris. Short-billed Marsh Wren. — Mr. 

 Romeyn B. Hough has, in his cabinet, two females of this Wren, 

 which he killed near Lowville, in this county, October 27, 1877. 



* Bull. Nutt. Omith. Club, Vol. Ill, No. 4, pp. 197, 198, October, 1878. 



