6 Merriam on Birds of Lewis County, New Yorh 
eminently a noisy species, filling the woods with their discordant 
cries, while during and after incubation they are seldom heard, 
and in the vicinity of the food trees their silence is very remarkable, 
for never have I heard a note of any description uttered either 
while in the neighborhood of these trees or in flying to and fro 
between them and the forests. 
Picoides arcticus. Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker. — 
This bird is not an uncommon resident in those portions of Lewis 
County which pertain to the Canadian Fauna ; for they are found 
both in the Adirondack region and in the coniferous forests border- 
ing Big Alder and Fish Creeks, in the Tug Hill range. 
Picoides americanus. Banded Three-toed Woodpecker. — 
This is also a resident species, but is much less common than the 
foregoing. For an account of its nesting and a description of its 
eggs see the last Bulletin (Vol. Ill, No. 4, October, 1878, p. 200). 
Hylatomus pileatus. Pileated Woodpecker ; Black Log 
Cock; Cock of the Woods. — This splendid species, commonly 
known among our hunters as the “ Black Cock of the Woods,” 
and, once common, is now becoming rare in Lewis County, although 
it is still a resident of the deep Canadian forests along our eastern 
border. A few are killed each year in the Adirondack region, and 
Mr. Dayan informs me that scarcely a season passes but that two 
or three specimens are taken in the vicinity of Lyon’s Falls, — so 
near do they approach civilization. 
Centurus carolinus. Red-bellied Woodpecker. — Mr. C. L. 
Bagg has a mounted specimen of this Woodpecker, which he shot 
here (Locust Grove, Lewis County) during the winter of 1871 -2. 
Melospiza lincolni. Lincoln’s Finch. — In my cabinet is a 
female specimen of Lincoln’s Finch, which I shot here (Locust Grove) 
May 23, 1873. Mr. Egbert Bagg, Jr., of Utica, on the 13th of June 
last (1878), took its nest, containing three eggs, at Moose Pond, 
Hamilton County, N. Y.* (in the Adirondack region, and not 
many miles distant from Lewis County). As there is no question 
concerning the identity of this nest (the female parent having been 
shot and sent to Mr. Robert Ridgway for identification), and since 
my bird was taken so late as the 23d of May, I think there can be 
no reasonable doubt of its breeding in Lewis County. 
Cistothorus stellaris. Short-billed Marsh Wren. — Mr. 
Romeyn B. Hough has, in his cabinet, two females of this Wren, 
which he killed near Lowville, in this county, October 27, 1877. 
* Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Yol. Ill, No. 4, pp. 197, 198, October, 1878. 
