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Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker ( Picoides arcticus). — June 
14, 1905, while walking through a partially cleared spruce swamp 
at Inlet, Quebec, fifty miles northeast of Ottawa, I was attracted 
by a queer sound emanating from a bush. The sound was as if 
produced by pulling out the end of a clock spring and suddenly 
releasing it, producing a wiry, humming sound. The author of 
it proved to be a male of this woodpecker. In the course of the 
half hour that I watched him he showed himself master of quite 
a repertoire of notes and would-be songs. When flying he would 
say: chut chut and then rattle like a Kingfisher. When hammer- 
ing on a tree and preening himself, he would intersperse those 
actions by a chuckling: duck duck duck. At last a Robin chased 
him away. — The quaint call of the Olive-sided Flycatcher ( Nuttal - 
ornis borealis)', put take care, one adding: putt low, could be heard 
at the same time. 
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