229 
1869. 
July £ 
Aug. 
1870,- 3 
July 28. 
Sept.2-1011. 
Sphyrapicus varius. 
The commonest Woodpecker near the Glen, House N.H, 
By ffuly 20 the young were fully §iedged feathered and’ 
separated from their parents. They were found 
throughout the forest but wore especially numerous in a 
tract of dead stubs bordering a mill pond. Here they 
were always to be found, winding nimbly about the trunks 
or clinging to one particular place often drumming on the 
resonant wood so loudly that they might bo heard for half 
a mile away. At sunset they perched on the tops of the 
trees whence they darted out after passing insects. 
I also saw them frequently hanging against the birch 
trees where the bark was perforated by a species of 
large yellow wasp and cooly snapping up the enraged in¬ 
sects as they came in cloudsabout their heads. Plight 
similar to that of other Woodpeckers, Notes a low 
snarling v/’hine. 
Have never found this Woodpecker near the Profile 
House, N.H., but saw one to-day about fifteen miles dovm 
the valley of the Pemigewasset River, 
Saw them nearly every day (Forks of the Kennebec. 
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