30 THE FLICKER. 



this song as by far the most musical of any of its attempts in 

 this line. On May 16, '96, I heard an apparently rare va- 

 riation , a metallic ka-tuick-wick-7vick-7vick-wick-7vick-wick-wick- 

 wick-wick-ka by the male while close to the nest. 



Quite a number of birds have certain cries which might 

 easily be mistaken for the Flicker's notes. Bendire and others 

 mention the following: Groove - billed Ani, Crotophaga ani^ 

 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus, Pileated Wood- 

 pecker, Ceophlceus pileatus ^ Blue Jay, Cyanocitia cristata^ Long- 

 crested Jay, C. stelleri macrolopha, and Oberholser in ** Birds of 

 Wayne County, Ohio,'* states that the imitation by the 

 Cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis, was so perfect as to almost 

 induce an erroneous note book entrv. 



