Notes on the Breeding of the Hairy Woodpecker 
in the 
vicinity of Boston. 
May 86, 1900, Milton, Mass. Pound a nest "built in an old 
hole in a dead stub of a red maple that stood practically alone 
in a clearing beside a swamp. The hole was about ten feet up and 
was "full of very vociferous young." 
May 11, 1903 in the Put ter ham swamp in Brookline, Mass., 
found a nett full of twittering young. Should say from their 
voices that they were not very old. This nest was in an old hole 
about 35 feet up in a dead limb of an elm or red maple, I have 
forgotten which. 
May 11, 1904 in the Putterham swamp at Brookline, Mass., 
found nest nnd four slightly inoubfeted eggs. Nest was about 80 
feet up at top of an old red maple stub that was full of old 
Woodpecker hales. 
May 18, 1904 at Punkapog, Mass, took a set of toost fresh 
eggs from a new hole about 30 feet high in an appsently sound 
limb of a red maple. ^ June 3, 1904, at Brookline, Mass, found a 
nest of very loudly squaking young. Prom the noise they made they 
were apparently pretty nearly full grown. Nest about 30 feet high 
in the side of one of the main limbs of a dying elm which grew 
beside a wood-road leading off Clyde 3t. 
