Bird Life Big Cypress Swamp Region 99 



rows excavated April 4th showed the birds just getting ready to nest. 

 One contained one egg. 



38. Cavipephilus principalis. Ivory-billed Woodpecker. In Florida 

 this splendid Woodpecker is now confined to the wildest and remotest 

 swamps. Far down in the Big Cyjiress I had the good fortune to see 

 and hear it, the reward of hours of laborious wading. It is readily 

 distinguishable from the Pileated Woodpecker in flight by the large 

 amount of white on the wings. Its call is quite different, too. There is 

 a distinct pause between the notes and it lacks the carrying power of 

 that of the Pileated. Two nesting sites of former years were seen, both 

 in cypress trees. They may be identified with certainty, as the hole is 

 somewhat oblong in shape, the height being to the width in about the 

 ratio of three to two. The birds also have the peculiar habit of stripping 

 the outer bark from the trunk for a considerable distance below the 

 nest. * 



39. Dryobates iorealis. Eed-cockaded Woodpecker. Locally dis- 

 tributed in the higher pine woods. Several nesting sites noted. These 

 are cut into living pines with dead hearts, and the trunk for several feet 

 below the nest is thickly smeared with pitch. 



40. Phlwotomus pileatus pileatus. Pileated Woodpecker. Common 

 and observed almost daily. Three nests were found, all in dead pines, 

 one with three slightly incubated eggs April 5th, a second on the follow- 

 ing day with three half-grown young, and the third April 18th, in which 

 the birds were feeding young. One fact that I noted several times is 

 that this bird feeds on the ground after the manner of the Flicker. 



41. Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Eed-headed Woodpecker. Common, 

 but less so than the two following species. Beginning nesting in 

 April. 



42. Centurus carolinus. Eed-bellied Woodpecker. Common and nest- 

 ing in March. I found one pair apjjropriating a former nesting cavity 

 of the Eed-cockaded Woodpecker. 



43. Colaptes auratus auratus. Flicker. Common throughout the pine 

 woods. Nests with fresh eggs April 19th and 23rd. 



44. Antrostomus carolinensis. Chuck-will's-widow. Common in the 

 hammocks, but rare elsewhere. Nesting in April. 



45. Chordeiles virginianus chapmani. Florida Nighthawk. Observed 

 during early April near Immokalee and it probably nests there. 



46. Tyrannus tyranmis. Kingbird. A common resident of the pine 

 woods. Saw my first Kingbird March 21st and in a day or two they 

 were plentiful. Observed a pair building April 19th. 



47. Myiarclms crinitus. Crested Flycatcher. Abundant. The small 

 cypress heads are their favorite haunts and nearly every one harbors 

 a pair or two. They were common everywhere when I first entered the 

 woods March 14th. Nesting begins in April. On the 7th I observed a 

 bird carrying material into a hole in a small cypress tree, and on the 

 17th I picked up part of an eggshell from the ground. 



