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and evenly chiseled; the' average depth was about fourteen inches, by five in 

 diameter at the widest' point, while the diameter of the exterior hole varied from 

 1.25 to 1.60 inches. The labors of excavating the nest and those of incubation are 

 shared alternately by both^ sexes. Mr. Brewster gives the eggs as numbering from 



403. VsLItOW-BBLLZED Sapsucker (from Beal). 



five to seven in a set^ and varying considerably in shape, some being oblong, others 

 decidedly elliptical. They are pure white in color, and there is much less of that 

 fine polish than in eggs of the other species of Woodpeckers he had examined. The 

 size is given as .85z.60.* 



402a. BED-NAPEB SAFSUCKER. Spjiyraptcus varius nuchalis Baird. Geog. 

 . Dist. — Rocky Mountain region, west to the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges; south 

 . into Mexico. 



The late Major Charles B. Bendire, U. S. A., met with this race of S. varius 

 sparingly distributed In various portions of the Blue Mountains of Oregon, Wash- 

 ington Territory and Idaho, and as far west as the eastern slope of the Cascade 

 Range in Southern Oregon, iu the Klamath Lake region, where it was replaced by 

 Sphyrapietis. ruber, the two species overlapping each other, but not intergrading, and 

 remaining perfectly distinctHe found it breeding in June, nesting in cavities of live 



• Bull. Nutt. Club, 1, pp. 63-70. 



