Howell, T.R. 1950 S. varius ssp. McLeese Lake ft., 20mi. N. of Williams Lake, British Columbia July 7 (cont'd) The young were still in the nest here but surely about to leave as they were poking their heads out and giving screams as well as cheeps. I collected the ♀ (nuchalis) as she came up to feed the young, and then cut down the tree and got the juvenals out of the nest. These are TRH **s 450-454, and the ♂ parent **446. One juvenile may have already come out or got away somehow, as I heard cries that sounded like one, but didn't see it. The young birds all had hyoboscid (sp?) flies on them- the first time I have noticed these on sapsuckers. 16mi. S. of Quesnel ft., B.C. July 8 - I went to the nest where I collected an intermediate yesterday and imitated tattoos. There were a few yelps, and another intermediate flew from over 50yds away directly to a dead branch close to the old nest, and on the same tree. [illegible] the bird began to tattoo, and I collected it. This bird was a ♂, undoubtedly the mate of the ♀ collected at the same nest. Then I went to the other nest I had located in this area and did more tattooing, but got only distant responses. 2 juvenals were at the same birth tree as yesterday, and soon a typical nuchalis came up to the tree and fed with them. They flew off to another tree, and the adult then went over and fed both. After a while it noticed me, flew to a dead stub, tattooed once, and the flew away and screamed quite a bit. I walked back toward the other nest, and stopped about half way when [a loud tattoo came from