1880. 
221 
Picoides arcticus. 
Maino (Lako Umbagog). 
(May 28) 
. George Hayv/ard brought in a sot of perfectly fresh 
eggs yrith the foroale parent; ho said the hole v/as about 
eight feet high in a live spruce \yhich \ra,s rotton inside. 
I dissected tlio bird a; f ound tliat she './ould have laid 
three more eggs. 
1881. 
May 14. 
Shot a female which had laid all but two eggs {extro^'i^ 
ity of Sv/-eet Cove). 
“ 23. 
Shot a male on the edge of an arbor-vitae sv/amp bor~ 
doring the Androscoggin River about a hundred rods below 
the mouth Of the Mogalloway; it was incubating. 
“ 26. 
Shot a male on the south shore of the lake a few huir- 
dred yards west of' Peasloe’s Brook; he was digging at 
the trunk-of a fir. It is unusual to find ono'so far 
sv/ay from the arbor-vitae syramps, but, like most of the 
large V/oodpockers, this species vyandors a good dea] '^V'^n 
at this season. ’ 
1882. 
Oct.8-22 
Three seen in company October 16. They wore play¬ 
ing together on a tall stub, chattering like P.villosus 
as they enased one an.other around its trunk. A sirr^lo 
male shot October 21. ■ 
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