1874. 
Pieus villosus. 
Maine (Lake Unbagog). 
!• Shot a Piale in first plumage v/ith the full rod 
crov/n-patch. 
Shot a young male moulting af.d changing the fall 
;! pluDiage. 
Shot a very white female (specimen in collection). 
1876.a ‘ 
June A hole in a small stub not more than tliroo Poet 
above the v/ater. I hammered loudly on the stub and the 
|| male came out. I could hear young inside making a soft 
j| t’wittoring. The oj.tranee hole was one and flfteon- 
) sixteenths inches in diameter, the thickness of the wood 
, at the orifice one and one half inches. 
7. 
Cut open the nest found Juno 2; it contained four 
young about as large as sparrov/’s but unf oatherod. 
Although they were not disturbed I found them dead a few 
days later and the nest evidently deserted. The en¬ 
trance to tliis nest was one and fourteen-sixteenth inc'ios 
in diameter, the interior cavity four inches in diame¬ 
ter, and tl’irteen inciies deep. 
A nest containing young in a birch stub fifteen 
foot high. The old birds made a great fuss. 
1879, 
at least sixty feet above the water 
^ in a hard dead ash, En'ra,neo liolo vorj^ small. ■ Male 
|l and female coming alternately with food"^ the young ehat- 
j terin.g with the usual clamor of young Woodpeckors'whon 
|i their pa-rents entered the hole, 
1880. ( 
5ay 17. 
20 . 
21 . 
21 
^ Set B-3. Fresh—set complete—birch stub on lake 
snore just'inside the vrood edge—height thirty-five feet 
Wo round this nest' by watching the birds; one -ould 
fly to the Iiolo, look in, and utter a harsh cry when 
lbs mate would appear and take its place. As rW guide 
was cutting out the hole both of them flew about'^his 
>c-d uti/v^iing a long, iiarsh rattle, and one actually 
alighted for a moment, on hi 
s ba,ck. 
A nest with young on the bank of Cambridge River 
the female coming regularly v/ith food, the male not ’ 
, - — ^ --— , J.io- iJicij.1,: u soon, 
The young rattledliko all young Woodpeckers. 
Nest with newly-hatched young in low birch stub. 
^ Set C-rS. On point of hatching. Role in south 
siae Ox brown ash stub; surrounded bv water- thirtv 
disohored by 
lime and v/oather. 
Another nest about thirty feet xi, 
an asb, s.ab, also contained o^s/Ilf:r.,4i 
h'de IffrII'f ast^-aneo hole on oast 
