Winter Birds of Webster ( N.H.byFalco. 
, lllaek-backed Woodpecker, {Picoides arctic us). 
Q.8cO. X, Jan. 188 " . p./f 
Bds, Obs. in Franconia, N.H June 11-21 
86, and June4-Aug-. 1 / 87 , W. Faxon 
§. Picoides arcticus. Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker. — One 
specimen seen on Mt. Lafayette, June, i8S6. 
Auk, V. April, 1888. p,15l 
* 7 " When we at last reached the top, the slope 
was so gradual that we were unable to get 
any idea of the lay of the land about us, 
except in our immediate vicinity. Here we 
found the Blackpoll Warbler, apparently 
breeding, and on the west slope another 
nest of P. arcticus , in a dead spruce, eigh- 
teen feet above the ground. The hole was 
dug directly beneath the stub of a limb . / 
March, 1891, 
In a wood of tall mixed timber, at Chesham, N. H., six miles north of 
Mt. Monadnock, on May 18, 1899, ™y father watched for several minutes 
at close range a female Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker ( Picoides 
arcticus ). The bird was feeding on a stump fifteen feet above his head, 
and he had an excellent chance to examine it. Considering the lateness 
of the season, this is a very southern record. 
9 'Ga^oJL*) ^ jzj 
Auk, XIX, July, 1902, p- 2 °j 5~ . 
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