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While the young are being fed in the nest great numbers of tent 

 caterpillars are consumed. 



109. Coccyzus erythropthalmns.—Black-hiUed Cuclvoo. 



Median dates of arrival are May 11, the earliest being May 5, 

 1896. The birds are most numerous during the third week of May, 

 but after that time thin out to few individuals during the whole 

 summer. My records indicate that the birds depart southward 

 about the beginning of the last week in September. At any time 

 they are outnumbered three or four to one by the Yellow-bill. Oc- 

 casionally eggs of the Black-bill are found in the nest of the Yel- 

 low-bill, but I have never noted a return of the compliment (?) on 

 the part of the Yellow-bill. The nesting places of this cuckoo are 

 much the same as those of the other, but the nests average rather 

 more slovenly made. 



110. CeryJe alcyon. — Belted Kingfisher. 



Common along the courses of the larger streams, in the vicinity 

 of the large ponds, and along the lake front and over the marshes. 

 Individuals which are able to find suitable fishing places remain 

 all winter. I have never seen one in winter in the vicinity of the 

 sand spit. While there are usually areas of open water somewhere 

 in the marshes at all times, the Kingfishers do not seem able to find 

 suitable cover in their vicinity or are crowded away by the gulls 

 and ducks. Individuals often fly well out over the lake to fish. 

 Nests are dug into any convenient bank, even the steep sloping 

 sides of the sand dunes in spite of their tendency to cave off and 

 ruin the prospect. The median date of arrival is March 24, the 

 earliest being March 12, 190G and 1908. The average departure of 

 the bulk is about the middle of October. There is little variation 

 in the numbers, and no instances of any marked flights. 



111. DryoMtes villostis. — Hairy Woodpecker. 



A common resident over the whole of the mainland portion of the 

 region, but not seen on the islands, and only casual on the sand 

 spit during the spring. I have failed to find any nesting pairs in 

 the wooded west end of the point. This Woodpecker is not unusual 

 as a nesting bird in the orchards of Oberlin, but is more numer- 

 ous at all times in the woods. It is frequently more numerous in 

 town during the snowy parts of winter, when it will visit the lunch 

 counter with other birds. In the woods in winter this species 

 ranges with the regular company of woods birds, being in about the 

 proportion of three to five of the Downy Woodpecker, and usually 

 being about the last of the company to respond to the whistled 

 calls of Chickadee or Tufted Titmouse. It often resents being thus 



