340 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



front of the crown, which was black. The eggs were each if by f 

 and pure white. On July 3rd, in spruce bush, found the nest of a 

 sapsucker. It was ai)out 20 feet from the ground in a poplar, and 

 facing the southeast. Just over the hole was a large limb, which 

 would doubtless be of some service as a shelter from the rain. I shot 

 the female; her crown was black, with but a very few red feathers 

 in the front, and some of these were tipped with yellow. The 

 gizzard was full of wood ants, Formica rufa. {E. T. Seton.) Ex- 

 cavates its nest-hole usually in living trees ; one that I took was in an 

 ironwood and there were nesting-holes of two or three previous 

 years in the same tree which had died the previous year. (W. E. 

 Saunders.) I collected a set of five eggs from a hole in a poplar 

 about twelve feet from the ground, at Long lake, Manitoba, June 

 1 6th, 1894. (yV. Raine.) Always nests in a hole in a tree at Ottawa. 

 Nest made of chips and dust. Eggs, four to six, pure white. (G. 

 R. White.) 



402a. Red-uaped Sapsucker. 



Sphyrapicus varius nuchalis Baird. 1858. 



One specimen taken at Edmonton, Alta., 1897; in the summer 

 of 1 89 1 this species was taken at Banff, and in the preceding 

 year it was found breeding in numbers in the Columbia valley, B.C. 

 at Revelstoke, Deer Park and Robson. In the spring of 1902 it was 

 seen at Trail near the 49th parallel. In June 1889 it was quite 

 common at Kamloops, B.C., and a few were seen as far west as 

 Spence Bridge; first seen at Femie, B.C., in 1904, on April 22nd; 

 common at Elko, May 5th; common and breeding at Penticton, 

 B.C., April, 1903. (Spreadborough.) A common summer resident 

 in the Cariboo district, B.C. (Brooks.) Osoyoos and valley of the 

 Columbia. (Lord.) Found common everywhere in the interior; 

 breeds. (Streator.) I found this bird very common east of the 

 Coast range, especially along the Cariboo road. (Fannin.) Gene- 

 rally distributed and breeding throughout the interior of British 

 Columbia; did not observe it on the coast. (Rhoads.) 



403a. Northern Red-breasted Sapsucker. 



Sphyrapicus ruber notkensis (SucKOw) Richmond. 1902. 

 Vancouver island and Sumas. (Lord.) Ten specimens of this 

 form were taken on Queen Charlotte islands, where it is common. 



