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Ste. Marie, October 24. Quebec — Montreal, November 25. New 

 Brunswick — St. John, November 5 ; Scotch Lake, November 22. Nova 

 Scotia — ^Wolfville, November 19. 



The records of flickers that have been banded and subsequently 

 recovered throv\^ much light upon the migrations of this species. In 

 the files of the Biological Survey there are long series of cases where 

 birds banded at their nests in the northern parts of the breeding 

 range (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Michigan, New York, and 

 Massachusetts) have returned to the same point one to four years 

 later. These birds probably all belonged to the subspecies lideus. 

 Similarly, similar data also are available for areas (Missouri, Ken- 

 tucky, Tennessee, and Florida) wdthin the range of C. a. auratus^ 

 wdiich probably is nonmigratory. 



Definite migrations of individual banded birds are indicated by 

 the records of flickers banded in Saskatchewan and recovered in 

 Iowa, Oklahoma, and Texas; banded in Missouri and recovered 

 in Texas; banded in Iowa and recovered in Louisiana; banded in 

 South Dakota and recovered in Arkansas and Oklahoma (4) ; banded 

 in Illinois and recovered in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas 

 (2), and Louisiana (3); banded in Indiana and recovered in Mis- 

 sissippi ; banded in Michigan and recovered in Arkansas and Louisi- 

 ana; banded in Ohio and recovered in Alabama and Mississippi; 

 banded in Pennsylvania and recovered in Georgia; and banded in 

 Nova Scotia and recovered in North Carolina, 



Casual records. — In southern British Columbia a specimen was 

 collected at Sumas on April 8, 1903, and two were seen at Vernon 

 on December 26, 1906 ; a specimen was taken at Orcas Island, Wash., 

 on October 15, 1907 ; one was collected at Blaine, Oreg., on November 



3, 1921; and one was taken at Cliff Spring, Nev., on September 29, 

 1931. There are several records for California as follows: Furnace 

 Creek, April 12, 1917; St. Geronimo, December 18, 1893, and Janu- 

 ary 14, 1895; Point Lobos, December 14, 1934; Los Angeles, Febru- 

 ary 20, 1901; San Diego, December 4, 1931; and Eldridge, January 



4, 1913. 



At least four occurrences well north of the breeding; rano-e in 

 Alaska have been recorded: St. George Island, fall of 1904; Cape 

 Etolin, September 14, 1927; Wainwright, a specimen in 1924; and 

 Cape Halkett, in the fall of 1927. 



A specimen was collected on Okpatok Island in Hudson Strait 

 in October 1882, one was taken in Sandwich B;iy in August 1908, 

 and a specimen has been reported from Cape Wolstenholme on the 

 Ungava Peninsula. The species also has been recorded from Ber- 

 muda where at least one specimen was collected in 1871. 



Egg dates. — Arctic America : 6 records, June 3 to 16. 



