3l8 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Havelock. (/. Hughes-Samuel^ Accidental visitant in the Montreal 

 district ; rare. Mr. Kuetzing says this species occurs in the 

 Eastern Townships, but I have not observed it near Montreal but 

 will treat it as a straggler until more is known of it in this district. 

 {Wintle.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



One specimen, purchased with the Holman collection in 1885. 

 CLI. COLAPTES Swainson. 1827. 

 412a. Northern Flicker. 



Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs. 1898. 



Herr Moschler has recorded the receipt of a specimen from 

 Greenland in 1852. {Arct. Man.) An accidental straggler was 

 procured from the mainland near Akapatok Island; Hudson Strait, 

 in October, 1882. Reported to be a common sumtner visitor to 

 Northwest River, Labrador. {Packard.) Observed all along the 

 Moose River to Moose Factory, and a few as far north as Fort 

 George in Labrador, June, 1896. {Spreadborough.) A summer 

 visitor and tolerablycommon in Newfoundland. {Reeks.) One seen 

 on the Humber River Newfoundland, Oct., 1898. (Z. H. Porter.) 

 Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. {Clarke.) Not common at Lake Mis- 

 tassini, northern Quebec, in 1885. (/. M. Macoun.) Very common 

 from Lake Winnipeg to Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. {Dr. R. 

 Bell.) Quite common in Nova Scotia. {Downs.) In woods along 

 Rustico Bay, Prince Edward Island, July, 1888 ; common on Cape 

 Breton Island, July, 1898. {Macoun.) An abundant summer resi- 

 dent in New Brunswick. {Chamberlain.) Common around fields, 

 Restigouche valley, N.B. {Brittain & Cox.) Common summer 

 resident and breeds in York Co., N.B. {W. H. Moore.) Taken at 

 Beauport and a common resident in Quebec. {Dionne.) A few 

 were seen near Gaspe and one or two at Fox Bay, Anticosti. 

 {Brewster.) Common summer resident at Montreal. Breeds in 

 Mount Royal Park. {Wintle.) Common Summer resident at 

 Ottawa. Breeding in all woods. {Ottawa Naturalist^ Vol. V.) 

 Abundant and breeding in the districts of Parry Sound and Mus- 

 koka. {J.H.Fleming.) Common all over western Ontario. A 

 few spe.nd the winter in favourable seasons. {W. E. Saunders.) 



Not common in Algonquin Park, Ont.; one pair breeding near 

 cache Lake. {Spreadborough.) A very abundant summer resident 



