Plcoidos an<r~ic.anns . 
1889 , Lake Umbagog. 
October 26. Pul-pit Hock . 
Landed at Pulpit Hook for lunch. Heard a Woodpecker 
tapping in heavy spruce timber on the hillside and going to the 
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place found a female P. arctio us which I shot at. She flew a short 
distance and alighted, then turned head down and hung by one foot. 
I was about to take her off the tree when I heard another Wood¬ 
pecker tapping a few rods off. Looking I discovered a fine male 
P. amoricanus -working up the trunk of a large spruce and quickly 
shot him. I recognised him the first glance. Afterwards shot a 
male P. arctious near the Rock as we were eating lunch. He came 
from across the river, calling kloc , kloc as he flew, and alighted 
on a tall slender fir. Although killed dead by the shot I fired 
at him he clung to the tree, apparently by his bill, so tena¬ 
ciously that I had to get Jim to cut it down. 
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