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This large handsome woodpecker is not an uncommon bird in 
Battle’s Park and adjoining woods. On November 8, 1897, 
I watched one for many minutes pecking about on the trees in 
the college campus. Without doubt the bird breeds in the 
large timber near by. 
37, MELANERPES ERYTHROCEPHALUS (Linn.) Red-headed 
Woodpecker. A resident. Locally and occasionally com- 
mon. 
38. MELANERPES CAROLINUS (Linn.) Red-bellied Wood- 
pecker, This large spotted ‘‘ sapsucker” is a not abundant 
resident with us at all seasons. 
39. COLAPTES AURATUS (Linn,) Flicker; Yellow Hammer. 
‘An abundant resident. ‘This woodpecker has acquired the 
habit of procuring its food so largely by digging it out of the 
earth that it may now be regarded as more of a ground bird 
than a dweller in trees. 
Family Caprimulgidae. 
40. ANTROSTOMUS CAROLINENSIS (Gmel.) Chuck-will’s- 
widow. On the night of May 20, 1899, I listened to one of 
these birds calling for over half an hour. It seems to be in 
the neighborhood of the campus wall near the south-east cor- 
ner. So far as I am aware this is the only record of its occur- 
rence in Chapel Hill. It may possibly be found to be a rare 
summer resident in Orange county. 
41. ANTROSTOMUS VOCIFERUS (Wils.) Whip-poor-will. A 
common summer visitor, depositing its two marble looking 
eggs on the ground in the woods, with only a few dead leaves 
‘ between them and the earth. The first one noted in the spring 
of 1899 announced its arrival from the south by its loud cryon 
the night of April 20. 
42. CHORDEILES VIRGINIANUS (Gmel.) Nighthawk; Bull- 
bat. A common spring and autumn transient. A few may 
linger through the summer to breed. First one seen in 1899 
was in the afternoon of April 27. 
Family Micropodidae. 
43, CHAETURA PELAGICA (Linn.) Chimney Swift; Chimney 
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