Picoidos arcticus. 
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Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
1871, 
June 3- 
14. 
1879. 
Throe spocimons taken. Ono v/-hich I shot June 14 
Was hammering at the prostrate trunk in a windfall on 
the shore of the Lake. The tapping roll of this species 
IS different from that of the Yollovz-belliod Vfoodpecher. 
July 31. Pound an adult male with a young in first plumage 
li feeding among Lhe stubs on the bank of the River below 
tae house. 
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orie and hoard several others in the dense arbor- 
. vitae woods bordering the shores of Richardson Lake. 
* ■ ordinary cry of this species is indistinguisha- 
ule from the chuck of the common ground squirrel. Hoard 
several to-day. 
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1874. 
July 31. 
Aug. 10. 
1870. 
May 3G. 
“ 30. 
" 31. 
1879. 
June 4. 
Shot throe, ono a young bird on Cambridge River, 
the crowr'"^^ ^ sized yellow patch on 
Thpe specimens shot, one behind the house, two on 
the path of the Stone ^arm. One was a female which ovi- 
denuly would not have laid for tho at least two weeks. 
A pair shot the female of which has alreadv laid sever¬ 
al eggs. This Woodpecker is by far tho most active and 
.nergefeic species that I know. its strokes on the 
tree-,runks o.re peculiarily powerful, its general boar^n? 
expressive of vigor and energy. ^o.rxng 
for seve^a^weeks? evidently not have laid 
Cambridge River v/ith young 
pockLs ‘“hattp. common to all young Wood- 
£,■ + ■ Pc^ieribS v/oro feeding them. About th^^'> 
ithrroturroj^;i°^hf®‘' ‘''® '‘'-'Parture of one aih 
cn, roturn of tho other. As the male emerged from tho 
fir" - 
»nce cuZtnT' ■ ='"=Pi = i°ds of my pros- 
nevor heard befor-e The bnio -n. ^ c.amoi ..h^t I havo 
the size of v ^ ^ about 
s_ze o. that made by the Hairy Woodpecker. it was in 
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