Picoides americanus. 1889, October 26. Lake Umbagog. Pulpit Rock. Landed at Pulpit Rock for lunch. Heard a Woodpecker tapping in heavy spruce timber on the hillside and going to the place found a female P.arcticus which I shot at. She flew a short distance and alighted, then turned head down and hung by one foot. I was about to take her off the tree when I heard another Wood- pecker tapping a few rods off. Looking I discovered a fine male P.americanus working up the trunk of a large spruce and quickly shot him. I recognized him the first glance. Afterwards shot a male P.arcticus near the Rock as we were eating lunch. He came from across the river, calling kloc, kloc as he flew, and alighted on a tall slender fir. Although killed dead by the shot I fired at him he clung to the tree, apparently by his bill, so tena- ciously that I had to get Jim to cut it down.