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entrance about 6 feet from the ground. At Sisson the white-headed 
woodpecker was seen, the middle of July, by Miss Merriam, and early 
in September by R, T. Fisher. In the pine woods bordering the south 
end of Shasta Valley T saw half a dozen September 29. 
41. Picoides arcticus. Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker. 
Rare, but evidently breeding in the Shasta fir forest of the Canadian 
zone, where a male was shot near Wagon Camp by Jolin H. Sage July 
dé 
Fig. 38.—Arctic ‘Three-tovd Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus).—Drawn by L. A. Fuertes. 
20. Another was shot by Vernon Bailey July 30 in the gap between 
Red Cone and the lower end of Gray Butte, where a third individual 
was seen. 
2. Sphyrapicus ruber. Red-breasted Sapsucker. 
Fairly common at Wagon Camp, where specimens were collected in 
July by John H. Sage aud Vernon Bailey. One was shot in Mud 
Creek Canyon about the end of July by R. T. Fisher, and one was seen 
at Sisson July 15 by Miss Merriam. September 18, one was seen in 
the brush along Little Shasta Creek by W. Il. Osgood. In 1883 C. H. 
Townsend found the species “in midsummer in limited numbers on the 
heavily pine-timbered slopes of Mounts Shasta and Lassen.” 
