Picoides americanus. Lake Umbagog, Me. Sept. & Oct. 1893. Picoides americanus Sept. 30 On head at Pine Point Oct. 3 2 ad Pine Pt. 4 Pine Pt. 5 1 ad Pine Pt. 13 Pine Pt. Oct. 3 a beautiful ♂ on the upper-clad trunk behind our camp, very tame, permitting me to approach within 4 or 5 yds., yet alert and curious eyeing me sharply. He climbed several young spruces in the usual woodpecker style then descended to the trunk of a fallen hemlock at which he hammered with great energy. He frequently shot out his tongue 2 inches or more beyond his bill as I can attest between and over the bare scales of bark as if picking up insects. The yellow crown patch very conspicuous, the feathers round in a loose crest much of the time. When I pressed him closely he behaved alarmed & called very like that of P. arciius but less loud & with less of the abundant, rapid staccato quality 1894 Picoides americanus Sept. 10 & 12th 26 ad Pine Point Sept. 10, a ♀ drumming and calling for 15 minutes or more — 8 A.M. in spruce woods on limb behind our camp, called probably fifty times giving 5 or 6 calls then pausing for a half minute or so. Only one form of note uttered this a little varying considerably in tone & quality at times closely resembling the call of P. arciius at others equally closely that of Dryobates villosus & running from one to the other through invisible gradations. The drum was a perfectly regular, long, even roll like that of D. pubescens but louder. Lake Umbagog, Me. Sept. & Oct. 1893. Oct. 13 A beautiful male flying about Pine Point alighting against the trunks of the tallest spruces & pines and calling almost incessantly. This note unlike that of the bird noted Oct. 3 was distinctly like the (which) and was so much like the call of the Hairy Woodpecker I heard him many times before I suspected that he was not a Hairy. At length however, a slight difference in the quality of the sound cured my suspicions. It was curved slightly from thin to thick but did not over closely approach the call of the Black-backed. The bird finally flew down to our camp & alighting on the wall topped the log tenderly. This flight was precisely like that of the Hairy or Downy Woodpecker, a gallop with a single wing stroke at the beginning of each upward curve.