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MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Four ; two taken at Ottawa by Mr. Herring ; one purchased 

 with the Holman collection in 1885 ; and one taken at Medicine 

 Hat, Assa., May 24th, 1894, by Mr. Spreadborough. 



One set of six eggs taken near Port Durham, Ont., in 1892. 



408. Lewis's Woodpecker. 



Melanerpes lorquatus (Wils.) Bonap. 1838. 



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 Van- 

 couver Island ; young taken at Victoria and Comox. {Fannin.) 

 A tolerably common summer resident at Chilliwack, B.C. 

 {Brooks.) While we were encamped on one of the head waters of 

 the South Saskatchewan at the eastern base of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains a Lewis's woodpecker flew overhead and was distinctly recog- 

 nized by myself and Mr. Batty. {Coues.) One specimen seen at 

 Canmore, east of Banff, in Tune, iqo i ; one specimen shot at 

 Revelstoke, B.C., May 5th, 1890 ; only three specimens seen dur- 

 ing the month ; rather common at Sicamous, Kamloops and 

 Spence's Bridge in 1889 ; one taken at Huck's, Chilliwack River, 

 B.C., July, 1901 ; abundant at Cascade, on the International 

 Boundary, B.C., in the summer of 1902. {Spreadborough.) Only 

 east of Coast Range in B.C.; rare in some localities, in others 

 abundant. {Rhoads.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Nine ; one taken at Kamloops, two at Spence's Bridge, one at 

 Enderby, one at Chilliwack, and four at Cascade on the Interna- 

 tional Boundary, B.C. All by Mr. Spreadborough. 



,409. Red-bellied Woodpecker- 



Melanerpes carolinus (Linn.) Ridgw. 1874. 



Not common near London but locally abundant in the western 

 part of the peninsula of Ontario. ( W. E. Saunders.) Rare about 

 Toronto; commoner in southwestern Ontario. {J. H. Fleming.) A 

 female was taken in Toronto, Ont., May 19th, 1885. {Thompson- 

 Seton.) On July 27th, 1894, I took an immature specimen of this 

 species at Twin Lakes, border of Lake township, northeast of 



