Pieus Yillosus-, 
Main© (Lak© Urnbagog ), 
Nest v;ith four young just hatched. 
Took tv/o young males from tho nest of v/hich they 
v/ero tho only occupants. Upon being placed in a box 
they clung to the sides aiid, although their bills were 
Voi y soft, hammer ed very loudly on the boards. They 
uttered the long rattling cry and the short sharp note 
of tho old bird in nearly tho samotono. Both \yor 0 very 
fat, Tho ]. ©male parent appeared as we were cutting 
open the liole and made a great outcry but v/as very shy 
, Scarcely coming within gunshot, 
1881. 
1880. 
(May 27) 
June 14. 
14. A nest from v/hieh the female emerged, contained, I bo- 
' ®ggs, but another from v/hieh v/e started the male 
proves, on examination, empty and unrinished. 
E-4. Kggs slightly incubated. Uest in small 
red maple v/hich has only recently died. Entrance hole 
on north side, height seven fen. Eggs badly stained 
j| with yellow sap or jutbEO which exuded freely from the 
1 . interior of tho cavity. Alva said it \ 7 as ’vator which 
soaked into tho wood above and became stained in passing 
|i dovm ttirough ii. This nest vras found May 14 vrher, the 
t: male peeped out as v/o v/ero rowing past; aftervyards we 
I roqUv^ntly i appod oin tho trunk as v/o .rore passing 'whon 
one or tho other bird would us-- lly look out but iould 
rarely fly from the hole. 
. . .Set P-4. On the point of hatching; ash stub stand 
ing in toe v/ator; hight fifteon feet. Thore were two 
other holes in this stub one of w^iieh, tho lowest was 
I occupied last year by a brood of young. The nresent 
, hole was evidently an old one as it was much blacked .han 
■ ohe last year’s one. 
li —height tvranty foot — female 
,1 sitting; eggs perfectly fresh. On May 14 we found 0 
. newly-made hole lower down in this same stub, and, as 
we cut if oner but rapped on the , trunk 
Alt If open put found the cavity unfinished . Aft-r t hi- do 
.truction or hor the bird evidootly tooi al oL 
nest-iiole higher — 
up 
June 3. 
1882. 
Oct.. 8-22 
Set H-3. Nest found May—. 
The most abunda.iit Vyoodpockor, 
|| in pairs—one we - sav/ throe together-, 
[i bor in high land. 
They usually occurod 
■in hard 
. im- 
170 od 
