Sphyrapicus varius. 
Lake Umbagog, New England. 
Five eggs (2851), May 28, 1896, coll.Wm.Brewster. Both 
birds at nest, female sitting at 6 A.M. Eggs inc. a few days. 
Glaspy Cove. Old-growth paper yellow birch & rock maple woods, 
high ground, 20 yds.from Lake. Nest in short, upright dead prong 
of living rock maple. Kt.40 ft. Stump taken. Birds anxious, 
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flying to & fro as W.was getting the eggs. ^' j 
Nest /o (3038), June 5, 1897, coll.C.H.Watrous. 3ird 
started from nest. Eggs nearly hatched. "In an old hole (made 
some years past) in a brown ash stub about 15 ft.above the water" 
in Block Island Cove.' Eggs all broken by the premature fall of 
the tree. . 
Nest /4 (3039), June 5, 1897, coll.Wm.Brewster. Bird 
started from hole. Eggs fresh. In dead, upright prong of living 
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white maple about 30 ft.above water in Leonard's Pond. 
