The Black-backed W oodpecke r. A. H. Wood, Paint- 
ed Post, N. Y., says : “In regard to the statement of N. A. 
Eddy, you may say that the Black-hacked Woodpecker is 
not a very rare bird thirty miles north of Mackinaw on the 
upper peninsular of Michigan. It makes its appearance 
there about Nov. 1st.” 
Q.&O. XX.May.183 i. p. lot. 
Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker ( Picoides arcticus ) in Jefferson Co., 
N. Y. — While hunting Grousfe and Woodcock near the village of Adams 
Center, Jefferson Co., N. Y., on October 20, 1916, I collected a female 
Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker. I was at once attracted by the call-note 
which was one I had not heard before. This bird is my first record of 
the species during the four or five years I have been observing the birds 
of Adams and the neighboring towns. — Edmund J . Sawyer, Watertown, 
N. Y. 
