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them take cherries or mulberries to a roof or tree, lodge them in a 

 crevice or crack and proceed to pick them to pieces. One was seen 

 to catch a cicada on the wing one day, but this probably was an 

 accident. On August 10, 1914, while beating a bunch of hazel 

 bushes I disturbed a cicada which flew off buzzing loudly. It had 

 not gone more than twenty or thirty feet when a red-head seized 

 it and carried it off. The woodpecker was apparently just flying 

 past, and the cicada unluckily flew in its path as the bird did not 

 appreciably alter its course. The woodpecker certainly was not 

 pursuing the insect as it was flying along in regular woodpecker 

 fashion and not flying as the red-head does when fly-catching on the 

 wing, 



84. Centiirus caroUnus. Red-bellied Woodpecker. This species 

 was not found during the summer months but appeared in small 

 numbers from August 22 to May 23, being observed in greater 

 numbers in April and November than any other months. It is 

 possible that it bred rarely, but the writer never found it. One was 

 taken April 4, 1913. One wintered in 1913-1914 in company with 

 a band of red-headed woodpeckers. (See Wilson Bui., Vol. XXVI, 

 p. 104.) 



85. Colaptes auratus luteus. Flicker. The flicker was a per- 

 manent resident found in abundance March 8 to October 2 and in 

 small numbers during the remainder of the year. Like the red- 

 headed woodpecker they nested commonly along the streets of 

 Marshalltown in trees or telephone poles. Nests with young were 

 examined on June 24, 1914, and June 2, 1915. On July 3, 1915. 

 several broods of young flickers were noted flying about the lawns, 

 but still being fed by the regurgitative method. 



86. Antrostomus vociferus vociferus. Whip-poor-will. A 

 locally common summer resident from May 3 to September 10. Along 

 Iowa river above Clay Bluffs and at Mormons Ridge they could be 

 heard calling every evening in June and July. On June 27, 1915, 

 Hartly Vogt found a nest containing two newly hatched young. 

 This was below Marshalltown on Iowa river. Other nests were re- 

 ported at Clay Bluffs. 



87. Chordeiles virginianus virginianus. Night Hawk. A com- 

 mon summer resident from May 12 to September 26, nesting 

 regularly on buildings in Marshalltown. On June 30, 1914, a nest 

 containing two partly grown young was found on a building and a 

 second nest was seen in the same sort of a situation on July 17, 1915. 

 The young sat among the gravel stones on the roof and were hard 

 to distinguish as long as they remained motionless. 



