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130. Downy Woodpecker. T>. pubesceus. (Linn.) 



" Permanent Resident," common. Breeds in 

 Mount Royal Park. This small woodpecker is 

 scarce during the winter months, but plentiful in 

 the spring of the year, when the bulk which have 

 migrated in the fall of the year are returning from 

 the south to their northern breeding places. 



Genus Picoides. Lacepede. 



131. Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker. (Black-backed 



"Woodpecker.) P. arcticus. (Swains.) 

 " Transient Visitant," scarce. Mr. A. C Mc- 

 Keand shot a female specimen of this species No- 

 vember 4, 1888, in the woods near St. Martin's 

 Junction, on Isle Jesus, and I shot one October 25, 

 in the woods back of the creek at Laprairie. In 

 the latter end of the month of October I found this 

 woodpecker common at Casselman, Ontario, about 

 90 miles west of Montreal. 



132. American Three-toed Woodpecker. (Banded- 



backed Woodpecker.) P. americanus. 

 (Brehm.) 



" Transient Visitant," rare. The preceding 

 species and this one, together with the Northern 

 hairy woodpecker, appear to occur here usually in 

 the months of October and November, and prob- 

 ably pass the winter season to the south of Mont- 



