Howell, T.R. 1950 S. varlus ssp. 50 mi. SW. of Princeton ft., British Columbia May 15 (cont'd) This area is the north end of "The Burn," where fire occurred in 1945. It 2 mi. SW of Allison Pass. There are still drifts several feet deep in the woods, but the crust is hard enough to walk on. Between 6:00 and 6:30 I heard several loud tattoos - at least 2 birds were involved - but failed completely to get even a glimpse of one. This was most exasperating, especially when a bird tattooed several times directly overhead, so loudly that it startled me. Try as I would, I could not see one. I waited at this spot until 7:00, but there were no more tattoos. my feet were so cold from standing on the snow that I felt I had better walk down to the road again. In a few minutes I went back up on the drift-covered slope and strolled around until 8:50 A.M., but did not hear a sapsucker except for possible screams in the distance, about 7:30. I looked for sapsuckers at several likely spots on the way back to the Falls, but did not see or hear any. May 16 - 5:35 A.M. - at the same spot. The road at this point runs roughly north-south, and snow-covered ridges rise steeply on either side. On the west ridge there is more live timber than on the east. At 6:00, as the sun was just about to come over the east ridge, a sapsucker tattooed from the west side. This was repeated several