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On the Chickamiii River (June 17 to 28) Hasselborg found 

 three nests at various points some eighteen or twenty miles up 

 the river. All were in high, rotten stubs, and all evidently 

 contained young birds. On Etolin Island a nest was located, 

 also high up in a dead tree, and also containing young. 



Three specimens were secured, from Kupreanof Island (nos. 

 9742, 9743) and the Chickamin River (no. 9744). They are very 

 deeply colored, the red and yellow areas being particularly in- 

 tense, and in one (no. 9742) the light dorsal markings are 

 reduced to the slightest of yellowish flecks, and the back conse- 

 quently almost uniform black. 



Colaptes cafer saturatior Ridgway. Northwestern Flicker. 



Flickers were decidedly scarce in the whole region traversed, 

 and the few individuals met with were so wild as to be 

 approached with the utmost difficulty. ]\Iore were observed on 

 Kupreanof Island than at any other one place, and here, from 

 April 12 to 24, six or eight were seen or heard. At Rocky Bay, 

 Dall Island, May 31, one was heard calling. On Gravina Island 

 the call note of a flicker was heard on the evening of June 15, 

 and one was secured early the next morning. At Portage Cove, 

 Revillagigedo Island, on July 2, a nest was found, and the pair 

 of birds shot. On Etolin Island, July 5 to 12, a flicker was heard 

 on several occasions, but I was never able to catch sight of it. 

 Single birds were seen on the Taku River, on September 10 and 

 13, but they were so wild as to be unapproachable. 



Four specimens were secured : an adult male at Kupreanof 

 Island, April 16 (no. 9728) ; an adult male at Gravina Island, 

 June 16 (no. 9729) ; an adult male (no. 9731), and female (no. 

 9730) at Portage Cove. No. 9728 may be taken as typical of 

 the race saturatior, the upperparts being rich mars brown, as 

 compared with the drab backs of southern California birds, while 

 the black markings are broad and lustrous. The underparts are 

 strongly tinged with vinaceous-pink. No. 9729 is somewhat paler 

 dorsally, though decidedly more pink underneath, and has a 

 slight admixture of aurafus characters as evidenced by a few 

 black specks in the red malar stripes, and a slight indication of 

 a red nuchal crescent. Nos. 9730 and 9731 were a pair, and 



