Howell, T.R. 1950 S. varius ssp. Alexandria, 1800ft., 28mi. S. of Quesnel, British Columbia June 17 - At the north edge of the "town", there was an extensively-worked birch clump that was visited several times by at least one sapsucker, a typical nuchalis. I heard another screaming not far away. The bird went 200yds non-stop on a couple of its flights away from the feeding tree - 8:30 A.M. McLeese Lake, ft., 20mi N. of Williams Lake, B.C. June 18 - As I had not had a good look at the male symbol of the pair described on June 11 with the nest 25 ft up in a mature aspen, I went down again today with the Moffatts. This time I got long, close looks in good light, and he looks like this: head and breast mostly red, with some black on the anterior part of the auricular patch, and a white post-ocular spots; only a slight hint of a black pectoral band; some black-and-white in the post-nape part of the head. This bird must surely be ruber nuchalis. The female symbol is typical nuchalis. I saw him several times at the limit of close focus of my 10x50 binocular, and also that close while he gathered insects hopping around and hanging upside-down in warbler-fashion in a small aspen. Once or twice he cleaned the nest; I didn't see the female symbol do this. She was more nervous than he when I was close. Both parents went in to feed but usually stayed only a moment or so; the young were noisy as they entered. A Tree Swallow nest is in the next tree, 10ft. away.