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CLXIX. SPHYRAPICUS Baird. 1858. 

 402. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. 



Sphyrapicus varius (LiNN.) Baird. 1858. 



One found dead near Julianshaab, July, 1845; another sent 

 from Greenland about 1858. {Ard. Man.) Common along Moose 

 river to Moose Factory; none seen further north in Labrador in 

 1896. (Spreadborough.) Probably occurs in Newfoundland. 

 (Reeks.) Fort Churchill, Hudson bay. (Clarke.) Abundant 

 summer resident in Nova Scotia. (Downs; Tufts.) A common: 

 summer resident at Sydney, Cape Breton island, N.S.; first seen 

 May 7th ; eggs far advanced by June 15th. (C. R. Harte.) Seen 

 at Hunter river. Prince Edward island, July, 1888. Not rare at 

 Margaree, Cape Breton island, July, 1898. (Macoun.) An occa- 

 sional summer resident at St. John, N.B. ; breeds. (Chamberlain.} 

 Rare in the Restigouche valley, N.B. (Brittain & Cox.) A tolerably 

 common summer resident; breeds in York county, N.B. (W. H^ 

 Moore.) Taken at Beauport, and a common summer resident in 

 Quebec. (Dionne.) Summer resident at Montreal ; more plenti- 

 ful during the spring migrations ; breeds sparsely on the island of 

 Montreal. (Wintle.) 



Common summer resident at Ottawa, Ont. ; breeds. Commoner 

 in migrations than at other times. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 

 A common breeding species, perhaps the commonest of the wood- 

 peckers in the summer in the Muskoka and Parry Sound districts ^ 

 abundant migrant at Toronto, Ont. ; a rare summer resident, breeds.. 

 (/. H. Fleming.) A summer resident about London, but not. 

 common except in migrations. (W. E. Saunders.) Abundant in 

 Algonquin park, Ont., breeding in holes in cedar trees about 12 feet 

 from the ground. (Macoun.) 



A common summer resident of the wooded section of Manitoba. 

 (E. T. Seton.) Regular migrant in Manitoba but not a common 

 breeder. (Atkinson; Criddle.) During the spring of 1892 only 

 four specimens of this bird were seen at Indian Head, Sask. ; two- 

 specimens seen at Medicine Hat, Sask., May, 1894; first saw four, 

 May 3rd at Edmonton, Alta., common the next day; common 

 summer resident from Edmonton, lat. 53° 30' to Crow Nest Pass^ 

 lat. 50°; common from the mouth of Lesser Slave river to Peace- 



