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found a nest with nine eggs, but six or seven is the usual number. 

 {Rev. C. J. Young.) Abundant from April to October. Usually 

 the flicker's nest is situated quite a distance from the ground, as 

 one of the bird's names — " high hole " — suggests. But last sum- 

 mer a nest was observed so low that the bottom was on a level 

 with the ground outside the stump in which the nest was made. 

 The nine eggs which this nest contained were also remarkable. 

 One egg was no larger than a sparrow's and contained no yolk, 

 while the other eight varied greatly in shape from spherical to 

 extremely elongate. {H. Tufts.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Twelve ; three taken at Ottawa, one at Bellevilk, Ont., by Prof. 

 Macoun ; one taken at Indian Head, Assa., one at Old Wives' 

 Creek, Assa., one at Medicine Hat, Assa., one at Edmonton, Alta., 

 three at Banff, Rocky Mountains, and one at Revelstoke, B.C., 

 all by Mr. Spreadborough. 



One set of 14 eggs taken at Hurdman's bridge, near Ottawa. 

 Nest in a hole in a tree where the bird had nested for years. 

 Another set of two taken at Old Wives' Creek, Assa., May 30th, 

 1895. Nest in a hole in Acer Negundo. 



413. Red-shafted Flicker. 



Colaptes cafer collaris (Vigors) Nelson, igoo. 



A specimen of this species was killed to the westward of the 

 Rocky Mountains by Mr. Douglas. {Richardson.) During Bis- 

 choff' s visit to Sitka a number of these birds were taken there 

 and the specimens are now in the National Museum. It has not 

 been taken since. {Nelson.) The most abundant of the summer 

 visitors on Vancouver Island and in British Columbia. {Lord.) 

 Five specimens taken at Ashcroft are of this form. {Stre:itor.) 

 East of the Coast Range ; common. {Famiin.) 



This species was common at Banff in the spring of 1891 ; 

 breeding at Devil's Lake and seen eating ants above the timber 

 line on Mount Aylmer, Aug. 6th, 1891 ; common at Revelstoke 

 on the Columbia, and down that river to Deer Park and Robson; 

 also common and breeding in Eagle Pass, west of Revelstoke, 

 B.C.; common on the International Boundary between Trail and 

 Cascade, B.C., in the summer of 1902. Not uncommon at Sica- 

 mous, Kamloops and Spence's Bridge, B.C., in May and June, 1889. 

 {Spreadborough!) 



