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least two occasions I have noted a bird or two at Carter Notch 

 (3,360 feet), in the latter month. This deep notch or cleft in 

 the mountain wall, with a valley opening out to the north and 

 another to the south, seems to serve as a passageway for a 

 number of birds in migration, and I doubt not that these flick- 

 ers had paused here to rest on their southward flight, for dur- 

 ing the breeding season I have never observed them above 2,000 

 feet on these mountains. Mr. Ned Dearborn ('98, p. 19) has 

 recorded that he has twice seen a flicker in Alton in January. 

 At Hampton Falls, on the coast, Mr. W. E. Cram ('99) finds 

 the bird a regular winter resident. 



137. Antrostomus voeiferus (Wils.). Whip-poor- 

 will. 



A common summer resident of the Transition regions of the 

 southern part of the state, but becoming rarer and local far- 

 ther north. In some parts of central New Hampshire 

 it is very common, as at Newfound Take. On the out- 

 skirts of the White Mountains it is local in the southern valleys, 

 being found about ponds in dry sandy woods where there is an 

 undergrowth of Bear Oak {Quercus ilicifolia) , brake and blue-, 

 berry bushes. In such a locality, a few are to be found every 

 summer at North Conway, two miles south of Intervale, in the 

 Saco valley. Frank Bolles ('95b) found them about his 

 "Lonely Lnke " at Chocorua, and at Lancaster, Mr. F. B. 

 Spaulding has observed the bird also. Although their nightly 

 serenades gradually cease as the summer wanes, the birds nev- 

 ertheless remain upon their breeding grounds until well into 

 September, and Frank Bolles notes them about his lake, so late 

 as September .25. 



Dates : May 6 to September 25. 



138. Chordeiles virginiaiius (Gmel.). Nighthawk. 



A common spring and fall migrant, and a rather common sum- 

 mer resident of the Transition regions in the lower part of the 

 state, following the valleys up well into the lowlands of the 

 White Mountains. In summer it is usually found in dry open 

 woods, where there is more or less scrubby undergrowth. In 



