Picoides arcticus. Maine (Lake Umbagog). 1880. May 27. Set C-4. Nearly hatched--birch stub standing alone on a small island in a retired cove, the adjacent shores fringed with arbor-vitae; height fifteen feet; entrance on the north side; male sitting; female did not appear. Small Island Stump taken & afterwards given to Bost. Soc. nat. hist. (May 28). George Hayward brought in a set of perfectly fresh eggs with the female parent; he said the hole was about eight feet high in a live spruce which was rotten inside. I dissected the bird and found that she would have laid three more eggs. 1881. May 14. Shot a female which had laid all but two eggs(extremity of Sweet Cove). " 23. Shot a male on the edge of an arbor-vitae swamp bordering the Androscoggin River about a hundred rods below the mouth of the Megalloway; it was incubating. " 26. Shot a male on the south shore of the lake a few hundred yards west of Peaslee's Brook; he was digging at the trunk of a fir. It is unusual to find one so far away from the arbor-vitae swamps, but, like most of the large Woodpeckers, this species wanders a good deal, even at this season. 1882. Oct. 8-22 Three seen in company October 16. They were playing together on a tall stub, chattering like P. villosus as they chased one another around its trunk. A single male shot October 21.