Dryobates pubescens medianus. 
Lake Umbagog, New England. 
Six eggs (2847), May 23, 1896, coll .Win.Brewster. Male & 
female at nest. Eggs slightly inc. Pine Point. High ground, open 
woods, fine old yel. & pa. birches, rock maples, &c. Nest about 
35 feet high, in very rotten yel .birch stub. V/.reached it by rope 
strung across fr.living trees. When cutting out hole, birds flew 
about him and one lighted on ro'pe. 
Six eggs (2852), May 28, 1896, coll.Wm.Brewster. Male 
sitting and started from nest. Eggs slightly inc. Near the Nar¬ 
rows. On Gibb's Pt. midway bet.Narrows & Black Island. Nest in 
tall dry black ash stub, dead about 30 yrs. but still hard. Hole 
small and neat. Ht.20 ft. Stub on edge of Lake, among other dead 
stubs, 50 yds.fr.woods. Nest not taken. 
) ft*' 
Nest /o (3033), June 3, 1897, coll.Wm.Brewster. Bird 
started from hole. Eggs fresh. In dead & very rotten stub at a 
height of about 20 ft.over water. Eggs all broken by the fall of 
the stub which we tried to lower with a rope. 
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Nest /5 (3034), June 4: 
started from nest. Eggs fresh. 
1897, coll.wm.Brewster. Female 
In dry maple stub about 8 ft.a- 
bove water on shore of Bottle Brook Pond. 
