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MUSEUM SPECIMENS, 



Seven ; two taken at Revelstoke ; two on the International 

 Boundary, B.C.; one taken at Banff, Rocky Mountains ; one 

 taken at Sicamous, B.C., and one taken at Kamloops, B.C.; all 

 by Mr. Spreadborough. 



In the summer of 1902 Mr. Spreadborough took four sets of 

 eggs on the International Boundary, two of which contained 

 seven eggs and two, six each, 



413a. Northwestern Flicker. 



Colaptes cafer saturatior (Ridgw.) A. O. U. Check-list, 

 1886, 



Abundant on the coast of British Columbia. {Streator.) Abun- 

 dant west of Coast Range ; a number winter in the neighbour- 

 hood of Victoria. {Fannin.) A common resident at Chilliwack. 

 {Btooks!) Common at Chilliwack and at Huntington, B.C. Ob- 

 served a few on the mountains at Chilliwack Lake, also a few 

 along the Chilliwack River and in the hills, and at Burrard Inlet; 

 a resident throughout Vancouver Island. Nests in holes in dead 

 trees ; nesting commenced April 24th, 1893. (Spreadborough^ 

 Noted occasionally about Sitka, Alaska, in the dense forest a 

 mile or more back from the beach. {Grinnell.) While c<2^r seems 

 to be exclusively an eastern species, saturatior cannot be said to 

 confine itself to the coast ; examples from local areas of great 

 rainfall in the interior being indistinguishable from ordinary 

 Vancouver Island specimens. {Rhoads.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Eleven specimens ; four taken at Chilliwack; three at Agassiz; 

 two at Burrard Inlet, B.C., and two at Victoria, Vancouver Island; 

 all by Mr. Spreadborough. 



One set of four eggs taken near Victoria, Vancouver Island, by 

 Rev. G. W. Taylor. 



Hybrid Flicker. 



All the Colaptes of the Upper Missouri, Yellowstone and Milk 

 River appears to be of the hybrid race in which there is every 

 degree of departure from the characters of typical auratus. The 

 change begins on the Middle Missouri,as low down, I think as Fort 

 Randall, and certainly as low as old Fort Pierre. It is a point of 



