Hylotomus piloatus. 
230 
Maino (Lake ^^nibagog). 
1872. 
Juno 6. 
Shot a malG ora the edge of the vroods abovo tho house. 
He did not soeni particularly shy, simple didging behind 
the trunk of the tree when T made any sudden movement 
almost immediately shoAying his ho ad again, and in the 
course of a fev/ minutes sideling back into full vievr. 
My attention was attracted to him lay his loud ringing 
laugh, continued for nearly a minute v/ithout cessation 
until I wondered how tho bird could get breath. Those 
nobes bore a close resemblance to those of Colantes hut 
were louder and shriller. Dead shot a female Ju^ 3 - 
she was hammering a crumbling and prostrate log to pie- 
1874. 
July 28, 
Aug. 13. 
One shot yesterday clung after death to the ton 
a auge stub and has not yet fallen. 
of 
ii Shot an adult male on tho edge of the Stone clear- 
il ^ attracted to it by its loud laughing notes 
i; which are very like_ those of Plantes but slower rather 
ou^er, ana ending in a slight tremulo. it might be 
^ reaai y mistaken, however, for the song of Colantes . 
" 15. 
Sei5t.l0. 
1876. 
kable. 
The note, though like that of C_olaptes , is unmista- 
Heard one near tho Brooks Tavern (Grafton). 
May 
Juno 
ZS.ji Heard a number, one of them very near me Their 
;| song 13 almost indistinguishable from that o f Colante hut. 
'■ *. shriller and always ends in a 
; I ailing tremulo. 
* Woodpeckers make great havoc among the crumb- 
1-iig oroes. An old stump which I examined to-day was 
; wideTd :?rf““ T"" rour’:,“Ls 
i, a.,u SIX feet deep. 
20, 
Healing one calling in the narrov/ bel 
of trees boi 
JrnSsuU "'•doK, I landed and went 
an oDon I obliged to approach across 
‘ *' ^ easily got within forty yards of i t 
desio. Lr” ?? ““oblng the usual laughing cry as ii 
deocon.dea. it proved a female in remarkablv fin« nin 
L1"rd lah ihL" 1 
Prom t‘bls T, d oobietime. 
are not' brjl'dtrrir“'‘ I believe those birds 
.vni ?hoI?'? =“-W”Bghe tree trunks are^idl jcal 
- oi tho smaller -foodnockers. Th^ir riiaht 
however, is wholly different, and v,r; neluuLhif'' 
performed on a level plane with sic., heavy win.’, -i ^ 
yu two ordinary speed is not graate; than that'af f 
Heron 
The bird 
on wing resembles a Crow, but its 
