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This species is rarer than the preceding but is seen in the 

 vjcinity of Ottawa every autumn and doubtless breeds to the 

 north of the city. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) This also is a 

 northern species but is seldom taken in southern Ontario in the 

 autumn though commoner northward. (Mcllwraith.) Rare in the 

 Parry Sound and Muskoka districts, only appearing in winter. 

 Mr. Handy sent me a pair taken at Emsdale. One specimen of 

 this species was shot on Well's Hill near Toronto, November i6th, 

 1901. It was seen in company with another, probably its mate. 

 (/. H. Fleming.) While at Whitney during November and 

 December, 1898, I looked very carefully for this species but only 

 succeeded in taking one, which was feeding on a yellow birch in 

 company with a party of P. arcticus. I obtained a second specimen 

 of this species from the same place a few weeks later. {J. Hughes- 

 Samuel^ Very rare in central Manitoba but probably general in 

 the north and east. {Thompson-Seion.) This bird exists in all the 

 forests of spruce-fir lying between Lake Superior and the Arctic 

 Sea. It is the most common woodpecker north of Great Slave 

 Lake. {Richardson.) A few specimens between Athabasca Land- 

 ing, Alta., and Lesser Slave River. Rare between Methye Lake 

 and Isle a la Crosse. (/. M. Macoun.) North of Fort Good Hope 

 on the Mackenzie River. " {Ross.) Much more common than the 

 preceding species in Cariboo, B.C., in the winter of 1900. {Brooks.) 

 Common and breeding in burnt woods at Banff, Rocky Mountains, 

 alt. 5,500 feet, June, 1891. {Spreaddorough.) This is probably 

 P. /asciatus, as we have specimens of that species from Banff 

 collected by Mr. Dippie in 1895. 



401a. Alaskan" Three-toed Woodpecker. 



Picoides americahus fasciatus Baird, 1870. 



In the country from Fort Simpson (on the Mackenzie River) 

 north and west, including the lower Mackenzie and Anderson 

 rivers, and all of northern Alaska, occurs this well marked race, 

 which is characterized by the extent and amount of the white 

 markings upon the dorsal surface, mainly in, the form of barring. 

 {Nelson.) Specimens of this form were obtained from Nulato and 

 Fort Yukon on the Yukon River. The bird is a resident of the 

 wooded districts and common in some localities. {Turner.) A 

 common resident in the spruce zone on the Coast Range ; also 

 taken in Washington as far south as Mount Baker. {Brooks.) 



