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Mr. William J. Cartwright of Williamstown, Massachusetts, 

 writes, October 28, 1920, that he flushed a Downy Woodpecker 

 from an apple tree having holes in circles about its trunk, and 

 found some freshly cut holes, while others showed signs of 

 various stages of weathering. He did not actually see the 

 Woodpecker make the holes, but the point he makes is that 

 the holes he has found made by Sapsuckers always have gone 

 deeper into the sapwood than those found on this ash tree. 

 He noticed, however, that the individual holes in both cases 

 were about the same distance apart. The bird did not come 

 back to the tree while he was present. 



Mrs. Susan K. Squires of Fredericton, New Brunswick, 

 writes, November 11, 1919, that in October of that year when 

 picking apples she saw two or three Downy Woodpeckers going 

 over and over an old crabapple tree. She examined the tree 

 and found it had rows of new holes and some that looked like 

 old ones newly opened, but most of the new ones were on spots 

 where loose bark had fallen, or where the Woodpeckers had 

 pecked it off. 



Mr. Norman P. Woodward of Worcester, Massachusetts, 

 ^Tites, November 17, 1919, that there is an old pear tree in 

 his yard that is full of holes made by Woodpeckers. He has 

 often seen the Downy Woodpecker drilling these holes, but 

 never long at one hole. It runs from hole to hole, and gives 

 half a dozen pecks with its bill. He has never seen in either 

 spring or autumn any signs of sap running from these holes. 

 He has sugar maples at the door, but so far as he is aware, they 

 are not visited by these Woodpeckers. 



Mr. J. K. Jensen, a Danish field ornithologist of long ex- 

 perience, formerly of Westwood, Massachusetts, but now of 

 Santa Fe, New Mexico, says that he has seen the Downy 

 Woodpecker make the small holes so often seen in apple, 

 maple and birch trees, and believes that it is the author of 

 most of these holes. Trees with the bark punctured are very 

 common near his old home in Westwood, where the Downy 

 Woodpecker was common and the Sapsucker scarce. In fact 

 he had never seen the Sapsucker during his eleven years' 

 residence in that region. He spent much time studying birds 

 and investigating their habits, and believed that had there 



