Dryobates pubescens medianus. Lake Umbagog, New England. Six eggs (2847), May 23, 1896, coll.Wm.Brewster. Male & female at nest. Eggs slightly inc. Pine Point. High ground, open woods, fine old yel. & pa. birches, rock maples, &c. Nest about 35 feet high, in very rotten yel.birch stub. W.reached it by rope strung across fr.living trees. When cutting out hole, birds flew about him and one lighted on rope. .................................................................. Six eggs (2852), May 28, 1896, coll.Wm.Brewster. Male sitting and started from nest. Eggs slightly inc. Near the Nar- rows. On Gibb's Pt. midway bet.Narrows & Black Island. Nest in tall dry black ash stub, dead about 30 yrs. but still hard. Hole small and neat. Ht.20 ft. Stub on edge of Lake, among other dead stubs, 50 yds.fr.woods. Nest not taken. [illegible] June 1, (1896) Nest /0 (3033), June 3, 1897, coll.Wm.Brewster. Bird started from hole. Eggs fresh. In dead & very rotten stub at a height of about 20 ft.over water. Eggs all broken by the fall of the stub which we tried to lower with a rope. .................................................................. Nest /5 (3034), June 4, 1897, coll.Wm.Brewster. Female started from nest. Eggs fresh. In dry maple stub about 8 ft.a- bove water on shore of Bottle Brook Pond. ...................................................................... 15