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are always rare about Fort Hamilton, viz. : The Hairy Wood- 
pecker ( Pictts villosus ), the Downy Woodpecker ( Picus pube- 
sccns ) , and the Purple Martin ( Progne purpurea). Now I 
expect that some readers of this article will conclude that its 
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fifteen minutes they moved 
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irted. Very soon I heard a 
direction and immediately 
they were excavating a nest ; 
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ncy of that kind in his cabi- 
was an Elm, dead and about 
diameter at the nest, which 
ien feet up in the trunk. I 
set the 2d of May when in- 
ust commenced. The num- 
as four, and one of the eggs 
h larger than the others, 
32nds of an inch 33x23, 
asured only 28 X 22 and No. 
4, 28x23." 
t of February my attention 
499. The Hairy Woodpecker , 
XVII, p. 673. 
Bv T. J. Burrill. Ibid., 
A aaero Naturalist* 
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Relates to the article last cited. 
1857* z\?i Albino Hairy Woodpecker . Stream. Yol. 3 Q , P- — * 
748. Hairy Woodpecker. (Pirpis villosus.) By J. N. Clark. Ibid., pp. 
attracted by some very singular bird 
notes while in another section of woods, 
and following the sound I found a pair of 
Hairy Woodpeckers, and their fantastic 
movements and strange gutteral notes 
were new and very interesting to me. I 
watched the place and the birds frequently 
as spring approached, promising myself a 
possible set of eggs as the outcome of this 
discovery, and I got them a little later 
than the set just mentioned. I had lost 
sight of the birds for some weeks, when 
one day in the same vicinity I heard the 
rapping of a Woodpecker’s beak, follow- 
ing the sound, found the bird at work 
in an old decayed oak about eighteen feet 
up ; no branches only a stump with the top 
gone. I prepared a small whip-saw and 
with it removed a section of the tree be- 
low the entrance large enough to insert 
my hand in the hole, and on the 9th of 
May secured a fine set of four fresh eggs 
from the nest. Eeplacing the section 
taken out securely the bird lingered by the 
nest and twelve days after I found four 
more eggs in it with incubation already 
progressing. It quite surprised me that 
they could replace a set so promptly. 
The same day on which I found the fore- 
going nest, on my return through another 
section of woods my attention was attracted 
by the loud chattering of a Hairy Wood- 
pecker, and following the sound I per- 
ceived the bird having a quarrel with some 
Blue Jays who were rather neighborly, 
and after a little quiet watching I found 
she was also engaged in hollowing out a 
tree. This time it was a Maple in full 
foliage, and the entrance to the nest was 
through wood perfectly sound and green 
for over an inch. The heart of the tree 
was decayed but it seemed scarcely possi- 
ble that the bird could have chiseled the 
entrance through so hard a spot with her 
little beak. With my little whip-saw I re- 
moved a section of the tree below the en- 
trance and found the set incomplete. Re- 
turning the section to its place and secur- 
ing it there, I waited a couple of days and 
77, 78. — Nesting near Saybrook./Conn, & O* VoI*YIII 
498. The Hairy Woodpecker. By A. G. Van Aken. Ibid., XVII, pp. 
511-515. — On the habits of Picus villosus. A met, NafeoralisfiA 
1094. The Big [Ivory-billed ] Woodpeckers. By Geo. A. Boardman 
and J. M. II. Ibid., June 1 1, p. 388. 3 ?Or. Stream. S 23 V 
1096. The Great [ Ivory-billed ] Woodpeckers [in Florida ]. By 
W. A. D. Ibid., June 25, p. 427. if < 91 * jiVte&SBj XSV 
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