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(Mac far lane.) Oiie specimen at Athabasca Landing, Alta., May 

 25th, 1888. Common on Methye Portage ; not rare between Methye 

 lake and Isle k la Crosse. (/. M. Macoun.) Obtained only east of 

 the Coast range. (Lord.) Common at Ducks, near Kamloops, 

 B.C., in August, when they are on their southward migration. 

 (Streator.) East of the Coast range; resident. (Fannin.) Com- 

 mon in suitable localities around Lake Okanagan, B.C., in winter; 

 scarce throughout the winter in the Cariboo district, B.C. ; the 

 greater number seemed to emigrate southwards. This should be 

 the western form lately described by Mr. Bangs, but specimens 

 taken seemed to correspond in measurement with the typical form. 

 (Brooks.) Very little appears to be known concerning the move- 

 ments and habitat of this bird, especially in the north. I secured a 

 single specimen which was brought to me from Fort Reliance on 

 the upper Yukon. (Nelson.) An adult male was taken on the 

 Malchatna river, Alaska by McKay in 1883. (Osgood.) A young 

 bird of this species was taken on the bank of Six-mile river, Yukon. 

 (Bishop.) 



Breeding Notes. — Frequently seen in the fall in the county 

 of Renfrew, Ont., more early in the county of Leeds. In the lat- 

 ter county I have once seen this bird in a thick wood of pine and 

 hemlock as late as the middle of May, and as the locality was rough 

 and favourable to its habits, it may possibly have bred there, though 

 I could not locate a nest. This was near Landon bay. River St. 

 Lawrence. (Rev. C. J. Young.) This woodpecker has a habit of 

 sometimes nesting in colonies. I saw the nests of such a colony 

 near Sand lake in 1 896 ; there were six or seven nests, each cut into 

 the trunk of a living cedar, just below the first branch, and usually 

 eight, or ten feet from the ground. The cedars were in a dense 

 forest overlooking a small stream that empties into Sand lake. 

 Four eggs seem to be the full set. The young are hatched by the 

 ist of June. (/. H. Fleming.) A common summer resident at Lake 

 St. Joseph, Muskoka, Ont. From there I received a set of six eggs 

 taken May 30th, 1899. Nest, a hole in a decayed pine tree fifteen 

 feet from the ground. (W. Raine.) 



401. American Three-toed Woodpecker. 



Picoides americanus Brehm. 1831. 



Common and resident throughout the wooded portion of Labrador. 

 (Packard.) Scarcely so common as the preceding species in New- 



