1879. 
Picoides arcticus. 
Maino (Lake Umbagog). 
220 
(June 4): a dead fir stub in mixed fir and spruce v/'oods bordering 
1} the Kiver. 
! This Woodpecker is one of trio finest and riost vigo— 
|l rous of the familjj^ alvmys ' alert, active, and energetic. 
13, 
17 .^^ 
21 . 
1880. 
May 19. 
Visiting the nest on Cambridge River t'i'is morning 
I oUiid tiio paroTit birds coming to it at frequent iiiter— 
vals with food for the young yrho appeared at tiio ont anco 
to receive it keeping up an incessant chatter that could 
be hoard at least a hundred yards off. In no instance 
did either parent enter the hole; they simply clung be¬ 
neath it placing the morsel in one of the hungry mouths 
that fringed the opening. 
Visited the nest on Cambridge River. One of the 
young v/as looking out of the hole and all vrere chattering 
like a host of Kingfishers, their clamor being literally 
incessant. They seemed to bo nearly full grown and the 
foremost shov/od the orange crown-patch distinctly. 
Visited the nest on Cambridge River this morning 
and found that the entire family had gone. Saw t'wo 
adults to-day behind the lake house, their note is ex¬ 
tremely like the cluck of the Crow blackbird. 
Sot B—4, Incubated a Tom days—rod maple stub 
over^v/ater — five feet. stub standing in six feet of wa¬ 
ter twenty yards from the shore, bordered here by a heavy 
growth of arbor-vitae. The hole y/as re ar the base of 
the stub which was about tvranty feet high. The female 
was sitting and popped out Ir.w head as we approached 
after a moment, flev/ to a neighboring tree. She soon 
returned alighting just below the enmranco, peeped in 
and then ontorod, struggling asif the hole wore a tight 
lit. Paddling noiselessly to the tree I inserted my 
hanakorcniof m the entrance. When I put in my fingers 
she would pock them fiercely, driving her powerful bill 
to the^bone at every blovr and utt-ring a curious rattling 
cry not unlixo that of the Kingfisher. At length I al¬ 
lowed her to come out, holding my hand near the hole in 
the nope of catching her, but she slipped through my fin¬ 
gers, at once flying to the woods and not returning a^ain 
soon Bftor tho nppoarod and without apparont 
Cion eniored the hole. We enclosed him in the same way 
but more iimid than his mate, ho would not come to the ’ 
entrance. Accordingly wo cut through the trunk a little 
above tno eggs, and I took him from them ,/ith my hand 
the female, but made 
absoluoely no resistence, and oven refused to strike at 
my nana even 'when I held it in front of his bill 
27. 
Sot C-4. Nearly hatched—birch 
island in a retired cove. 
on a small 
fringed with 
on the north 
arbor-vitae; 
side; male 
stub standing alone 
. the adjacent shores 
height fifteen feet; entrance 
oi'uting, female did liot appear. 
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