Picus villosus. 1874. Maine (Lake Umbagog). Aug. 1. Shot a male in first plumage with the full red crown-patch. " 7. Shot a young male moulting and changing the fall plumage. " 10. Shot a very white female (specimen in collection). 1876. June 2. A hole in a small stub not more than three feet above the water. I hammered loudly on the stub and the male came out. I could hear young inside making a soft twittering. The entrance hole was one and fifteen- sixteenths inches in diameter, the thickness of the wood at the orifice one and one half inches. " 7. Cut open the nest found June 2; it contained four young about as large as sparrows but unfeathered. Although they were not disturbed I found them dead a few days later and the nest evidently deserted. The en- trance to this nest was one and fourteen-sixteenths inches in diameter, the interior cavity four inches in diame- ter, and thirteen inches deep. " 9. A nest containing young in a birch stub fifteen feet high. The old birds made a great fuss. 1879. June 5. Nest with young at least sixty feet above the water in a hard dead ash. Entrance hole very small. Male and female coming alternately with food, the young chat- tering with the usual clamor of young Woodpeckers when their parents entered the hole. 1880. May 17. Set B-3. Fresh--set complete--birch stub on lake shore just inside the wood edge--height thirty-five feet. We found this nest by watching the birds; one would fly to the hole, look in, and utter a harsh cry, when its mate would appear and take its place. As my guide was cutting out the hole both of them flew about his head uttering a long, harsh rattle, and one actually alighted for a moment, on his back. " 20. A nest with young on the bank of Cambridge River, the female coming regularly with food, the male not seen. The young rattled like all young Woodpeckers.