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at an elevation of probably 3500 feet ; 1907, June 22, a male 

 bird; 1908, June 22, pair and nest containing young near the 

 summit at an elevation of 3600 feet or more ; August 15, two 

 birds calling in the vicinity of the nesting site ; 1909, June 28, 

 a male bird and nest containing chattering young, very near to 

 the nesting site of 1908. The forest has been badly cut where 

 these woodpeckers are permanent residents, but a portion along 

 the trail to the summit remains intact, affording still a suitable 

 place for breeding. I am informed by my assistant, who has 

 been engaged in winter logging on this mountain, that he has 

 often seen one of these birds during his season's work. The 

 nest of 1906 was in a spruce trunk partly alive and on the north- 

 west side of the tree ; that of 1908 at a height of about eighteen 

 to twenty feet in a dead spruce about fourteen inches in diam- 

 eter ; that of 1909 in a dead spruce at a height also of about 

 twenty feet and on the northeast side of the tree. In each 

 instance both parent birds were assiduously engaged in procur- 

 ing and bringing food to the young. 



Another locality where occasionally a bird of this species 

 has been seen is the Davis swamp and Muddy Pond region. In 

 the swamp a male bird was seen on June 16, 1904, and again 

 one on May 31, 1905. In the woods about the pond a bird was 

 seen on October 8, 1904, and one on October 4, 1905. These local- 

 ities are in the Jefferson basin about iioo feet elevation. In 

 early August in 1903 and 1904 I found one and two birds respec- 

 tively at the foot of the Highland in the valley. Twice a bird 

 has been seen on Boy Mountain in early October, namely, in 

 1903, and again in 1904, once on the western slope perching on 

 a dead spruce in a limited patch of spruce growth disconnected 

 by pasture land from the woods of the summit, and once on the 

 southern slope at about the same elevation in forest of mixed 

 growth. Undoubtedly these were birds which had moved 

 somewhat out from their breeding places. 



Mrs. Edmund Bridge informs me that she has seen the bird 

 in September on Mt. Crescent in Randolph (1906), and on the 

 "air line" path on Mt. Adams (1908), when she saw three 

 birds on the i6th day. 



