CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 3O9 



Duncan's, Vancouver Island, by Dr. Hasell ; east and west of 

 Coast Range, B.C. {Fannin.) This, the only species of wood- 

 pecker detected by me in the Kowak region, was resident through- 

 out the year. It could scarcely be called common. {Grinfiell.) 

 Seen near Cascade, B.C., on the 49th parallel and taken on Sophie 

 Mountain at an altitude of 4,000 feet, July 12th, 1902. {Spread- 

 borough.) Collected at Haines Mission and Glacier, Lynn Canal. 

 In the Yukon valley at Six-mile River ; three specimens near 

 Miles Canon ; two on the Lewes River, Yukon district, and two 

 at Circle City, Alaska. {Bishop.) 



Breeding Notes. — According to Oliver Davis' " Nests and 

 Eggs of N. A. Birds," nothing has been published regarding the 

 nest and eggs of this species. It therefore gives me pleasure to 

 make the following record of a set in my collection of five eggs 

 which were taken with the parent bird on May 29th, 1897, at Peel 

 River that runs into the mouth of the Mackenzie River. Nest, 

 a hole in a coniferous tree about ten feet from the ground. The 

 eggs average -50 x '65. The Rev J. O. Stringer secured the parent 

 and found its crop filled with seeds and worms. (W.Raine.) 



MUSEUM specimens. 



Four ; one taken by Mr. Spreadborough near the International 

 boundary at Cascade, B.C.; three in Alberta, two at Banff, and 

 one in the foothills south of Calgary, Alta., by Mr. G. F. Dippie. 

 Mr. Dippie's Calgary specimen extends the range of this species 

 eastward to the foothills so it is very likely that most if not all of 

 the Rocky Mountain birds belong to this form. 



-4016. Alpine Three-toed Woodpecker. 



Picoides americanus dorsalis Baird. 1870. 



A specimen of what I consider to be this species was procured 

 at Fort Norman on the Mackenzie River. {Ross.) This form is 

 known to range from Fort Kenai and the southeastern Alaskan 

 coast and Fort Simpson on the Mackenzie River (Lat. 62°) south 

 to Oregon and Arizona. In well plumaged summer birds a longi- 

 tudinal white band begins with the nuchal collar and extends 

 down the back to the rump, with no trace, or at most a very slight 

 one, of transverse barring. {Nelson.) This form is abundant in 

 the interior wherever there are wooded districts. It rarely visits 

 the vicinity of St. Michael. {Turner.) Mountains east of Coast 



