1874. 
Picus puboscons. 
Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
Julj^ 27. 
Aug. 1. 
1876. 
June 15. 
“ 22 . 
1879. 
Juiif^ 13. 
Shot a young malo mth tho v/holo top of the head re 
Took a very small male apparently just from tho 
nest. Theso young are still .;ogether in broods but 
I doubt if either they, or tho young of Picus - villosus 
are fed by the pprents rifter leaving the nest. 
Nest vrith throe fresh eggs; about twenty feet high 
in a stub in the v/oods on high ground. 
One flyca&ching, launching out repeatedly after 
flying Dyptora. He caught several, but was much loss 
adroit at this occupation than the Yellow-bellied Ylood- 
pecker. I afterwards saw another doing the same thing 
Set of throe eggs incubated about four days. Hole 
in^doad top of live ash near lake shore; height about 
Ihis nest vyas found May 25, when the birds 
were hariimering inside. 
1880. 
June 5o 
Set D-5, Incubated six days. West in top of 
very rotton ash stub over vyater; found May-vyhen th^ 
male was at work excavating it, having at that time sunk 
the hole^to the depth of a fovy inches only; height fif- 
7. 
1882. 
Oct.8-22 
A nosi: examined contained young several days old, 
Nearly ascommon as the last. 
