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peckers to breed, seldom laying before June. It lays five to seven 

 eggs of very variable'size and shape, at varying heights from the 

 ground, ranging from ten to at least sixty feet. {W. E. Saunders.) 

 In 1898 red-headed woodpeckers were numerous near Black Rapids, 

 Ont. Their nests were all very high except two. The first con- 

 tained younglets on the 4th July, and the other, two eggs with 

 embryos on the 21st of the same month. On the 4th June, 1906, 

 while going in that direction I found a nest twenty feet high in a 

 dead branch of an ash tree. The entrance measured two inches in 

 diameter, the depth of the cavity, eleven inches. The nest con- 

 tained six eggs with embryos in them. (A. L. Garneau.) 



CLXXII. ASYNDESMUS Coues. 1866. 

 408. Lewis Woodpecker. 



Asyndesmus torquatus (WiLS.) CoUES. 1866. 



Shot only in the open ' timbered lands in British Columbia east 

 of the Coast range. (Lord.) Abundant in the interior; breeds. 

 (Streator.) East and west of the Coast range; rare on Vancouver 

 island; young taken at Victoria and Comox. {Fannin.) A toler- 

 ably common summer resident at ChilUwack, B.C. (Brooks.) 

 While we were encamped on one of the head waters of the South 

 Saskatchewan at the eastern base of the Rocky mountains a Lewis 

 woodpecker flew overhead and was distinctly recognized by myself 

 and Mr. Batty. (Coues.) One specimen seen at Canmore, east of 

 Banff, in June, 1901; one seen near Elko, B.C., May 12th, 1904; 

 one specimen shot at Revelstoke, B.C., May 5th, 1890; only three 

 specimens seen during the month; rather common at Enderby, 

 Sicamous, Kamloops and Spence bridge in 1889; abundant at Cas- 

 cade, on the International Boundary, B.C., in the summer of 1902; 

 one taken at Huck's, Chilliwack river, B.C., July, 1901 ; one seen at ■ 

 Douglas, May 6th, 1906, and one at ChilUwack, May 26th. (Spread- 

 borough.) Only east of Coast range in B.C. ; rare in some localities, 

 in others abundant. (Rhoads.) 



Breeding Notes. — Found a nest near Similkameen river, B.C., 

 June 15th, 1905. It was in a hole in a live poplar tree about five 

 feet from the ground and contained two fresh eggs. (Spreadborough.) 



