o24 FUCKERS. 



unlike those of the flicker, but are louder. 

 Roll-call also similar but with more volume. 



350. FLICKER. 

 Smaller, 12; bill, curved, white spot on 

 rump, conspicuous in flight; brown above, 

 banded with black; ash-red beneath, maxil- 



Fijr. 260 



lar\' patch, crescent on breast, and round 

 spots beneath, black; tail and wings beneath, 

 (rolden-yellow ; scarlet patch on back of 

 head, fig. 260. Female, without black max- 

 illary patch. Eastern U. S. from Fla. north 

 to N. C. and southern Ya., Ind. and TIL 

 Cries, varied; a whistling scream, an in- 



