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this element forms almost half of its entire food-supply during the 

 year. It also occasionally feeds upon the Chinch-bug, as can be at- 

 tested by the fact that the stomach of a specimen killed near Lincoln 

 contained in the vicinity of 1,000 of these bugs. It is also a fruit 

 eater to the extent of about one-quarter of its entire bill of fare, but 

 nature, not man, furnishes the supply. It takes the wild kinds in 

 preference to those that are cultivated. 



413. Colaptes cafer {GmeL). — Red-shafted Flicker. 



West Point, Omaha (L. Bniner); "is not abundant" (Anghey); "Foundin 

 the summer and late fall" (Taylor); "Western United States" (Goss) ; De 

 Witt (A. S. Pearse); Omaha (L. Skow), Cherry county — breeds (J. M. Bates); 

 Lincoln (D. A. Haggard); Wood River, Genoa, St. Edward (D. H. Talbot); 

 "formerly rare but gradually becoming more common — breeds same time as 

 preceding" (L S. Trostler). 



Order MACROCHIRES. — Goatsuckers, Swifts, etc. 



Family CAPRIMULGIDJE. — Goatsuckers, etc. 



417. Antrostomus vociferus ( TVi^.). — Whippoorwill. 



West Point, Omaha, Lincoln, Thomas county (L. Bruner); "Occasionally 

 found in eastern Nebraska, where it breeds" (Aughey); "Summer resident, 

 not uncommon" (Taylor); "Eastern United States to the plains" (Goss); 

 Omaha — breeding (L. Skow); Peru, common — breeds (G. A. Coleman); Cherry 

 county — perhaps breeds (J. M. Bates); " a common summer resident — breeds 

 May 16 to July 1 " (I. S. Trostler). 



418. Phalaenoptilus nuttalii {Aud.). — Poorwill. 



Crawford, Harrison (L. Bruner); "Rather in central and western Nebraska 

 in the vicinity of timber" (Aughey); "Summer resident, common" (Taylor); 

 " East into Iowa and Missouri " (Goss). 



420. Chordeiles virginianus (GmeL). — Nighthawk. 



West Point, Omaha, Holt county, Lincoln, etc. — breeds (L. Bruner); "Com- 

 mon in Nebraska, and breeds here " (Aughey); "Summer resident, common " 

 (Taylor); "West to edge of Great Plains" (Goss) ; Beatrice, De Witt (A. S. 

 Pearse); Omaha — breeds (L. Skow); Peru, common — breeds (G. A. Coleman); 

 Gage county (F. A. Colby); "common summer resident — breeds in latter 

 May and early June" (I. S. Trostler). 



420a. Chordeiles virginianus henryi (Cass.). — Western 

 Nighthawk. 



Holt county, Harrison, Thedford — breeds (L. Bruner) ; "Occasionally strag- 

 gling east into Illinois " (Goss); Omaha — breeds (L. Skow); Cherry county — 



