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ent resident, and breeds in York Co., N.B. {W. H. Moore.) Said 

 to have been formerly common on Prince Edward Island, but I 

 saw none. Mr. Earle showed me a stuffed specimen. {Dwight.) 

 Taken at Beauport ; a resident in Quebec. {Dionne) Accidental 

 visitant at Montreal, but rare. The nearest place to Montreal 

 where I have seen this large woodpecker was at Casselman, Ont., 

 about 90 miles west of the city. {Wintle.) 



This species is not uncommon in the hills north of Ottawa, 

 and is known to breed. (^Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) Muskoka 

 and Parry Sound districts seem to be the home of this species. 

 The work done by the pileated woodpecker in cutting into 

 dead trees is wonderful. A pair will work all winter at one tree 

 cutting it to pieces. I have several times seen stubs that have 

 been so cut up that they have broken down. The birds cut deep 

 holes in the sides of the trees to get -entrance into the soft centre 

 when the cuts are continued and lengthened until little of its 

 inside remains. (/. H. Fleming.) Found quite numerous at 

 Whitney on the Parry Sound Railway late in the fall of 1898. (/. 

 Hughes-Samuel.) Not common in Algonquin Park in summer ; 

 more plentiful in winter. {Spreadborough.) A rare resident in 

 the neighbourhood of London, (W. E. Saunders.) 



Rare resident in heavy timber, but becomes more abundant to 

 the northward. According to Hutchins it has been taken in 

 January at Gloucester House in Lat. 50° 31' N., Long. 96° 03' W. 

 387 miles up the Albany River. {Tkompson-Seton.) This great 

 woodpecker is a resident all the year in the interior of the North- 

 west Territories, up to Lat.. 62° or 63", rarely appearing near 

 Hudson Bay, but frequenting the gloomiest recesses of the forests 

 that skirt the Rocky Mountains. {Richardson.) North to Fort 

 Liard, Lat. 61° ; rare. {Ross.) Rare on the Clearwater River, 

 Atha., Lat., 56° 40'. {J. M. Macoun.) Common east and west of 

 the Coast Range. {Lord.) Common in the coast region where it 

 breeds; they are not very common on Vancouver Island. {Streator.) 

 Common; but more abundant on the coast. {Fannin.) Common 

 resident at Chilliwack, B.C.; tolerably common around Lake 

 Okanagan, B.C., in winter ; scarce in the Cariboo district, B.C. 

 {Brooks.) A few were noted at Banff in 1891 ; seen at Revel- 

 stoke in April, 1890 ; at Deer Park, Lower Arro,w Lake, June 14th, 

 1890, and at Robson on the Columbia River, at an altitude of 

 4,200 feet, Jun'e 26th, 1890 ; and quite common between Trail and 

 Cascade, on the 49th parallel, in 1902 ; observed everywhere in 



