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Sphyrapicus varius.
Lake Umbagog, New England.
Five eggs (2851), May 28, 1896, coll. Wm. Brewster. Both
birds at nest, female sitting at 6 A.M. Eggs inc. a few days.
Glaspy Cove. Old-growth paper & yellow birch & rock maple woods,
high ground, 20 yds. from Lake. Nest in short, upright dead prong
of living rock maple. Ht. 40 ft. Stump taken. Birds anxious,
flying to & fro as W. was getting the eggs.
Nest /0 (3033), June 5, 1897, coll. C. H. Watrous. Bird
started from nest. Eggs nearly hatched. "In an old hole (made
some years past) in a brown ash stub about 15 ft. above the water"
in Block Island Cove. Eggs all broken by the premature fall of
the tree.
Nest /4 (3039), June 5, 1897, coll. Wm. Brewster. Bird
started from hole. Eggs fresh. In dead, upright prong of living
white maple about 30 ft. above water in Leonard's Pond.