140 FROM BLOMIDON TO SMOKY. 



5.16. Goes out on limb. 



5.20. She drills, and continues to drill a long time. 



5.35. Hummer comes, alights, flies away. 



5.36. Young comes and dips. Female goes. 



5.38. Young dips 7 times hi cup No. 3, then in several 

 new holes. 



5.41. Male comes. 



5.44. Young dips in cup No. 3, 7 times, flies off. 



5.46. Male rattles around over cups and bark, but thus 

 far I have not seen him drink from cups. 



5.49. Young returns, dips 3 times from cup 3. He al- 

 ways wipes his bill in a drill after drinking syrup. 



5.55. Young dips again in cup 3 and flies south. 



5.56. Male flies in and clings close to cup. 

 6.00. Hummer near. 



6.02. Male dipping and preening. 



6.08. Young comes from south. 



6.12. Male and young dipping. 



6.18. A hermit thrush alights on the limb from which 

 the woodpeckers always take flight. Young flies 

 at him twice and drives him away and out of the 

 tree. 



6.30. Young still dipping ; I go home. 



On July 24 instead of going to Orchard No. 

 1, as I shall call that already described, I went 

 first to another half a mile northeast of it, where, 

 in August, 1889, I had seen sapsuckers drilling 

 a canoe birch, and humming-birds and a downy 

 woodpecker apparently sharing in the profits of 

 the tree. 



I reached Orchard No. 2 at 6.45 A. M. The 

 tree in use last year was nearly dead. Two 



