64 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 



"Common. Resident. Breeds." (1890e). 

 Recorded as "quite common" in Baldwin County, Sept. 

 16 to Oct. 2, 1892. 



No. 51Bis. Male. Greensboro. Feb. 7, 1878. W.- C. Avery. 

 No. 638. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 3, 1890. W. C. Avery. 

 No. 914. Male hornot. Greensboro. Sept. 8, 1891. W. C. Avery. 

 No Odd specimen without label. 



95. COLAPTES AURATUS AURATUS (Linnaeus). 



Flicker. 



"Yellow Hammer." 



There is only one specimen of the resident subspecies 

 in the collection ; it is listed below. 



No. 866. Male-hornot. Greensboro. June 13, 1891. W. C. Avery. 



96. COLAPTES AURATUS LUTEUS (Bangs). 

 Northern Flicker. 

 "Yellow Hmnmer." 



"Abundant. * Winter resident. A few remain during 

 summer and nest here." (1890e). 



Subspecies luteus was not described until 1898, so the 

 above note was absolutely correct at the time it was 

 published. It is known now, however, that auratus is the 

 breeding bird while luteus is only a winter visitant. 



No. 49Bis. Female. Greensboro. Jan. 28, 1878. W. C. Avery. 

 No. 318. Female. Greensboro. Dec. 19, 1889. W. C. Avery. 

 No. 351. Male. Greensboro. Jan. 22, 1890. W. C. Avery. 

 No. 817. Female. Greensboro. Mar. 24, 1891. W. C. Avery. 

 No Odd specimen — no data. 



97. ANTROSTOMUS CAROLINENSIS (Gmelin). 

 Chuck-will's Widow. 



Entered under the record of No. 34 (old series), an 

 adult female, taken at Greensboro, Sept. 3, 1877, the 

 §tomach of which contained "debris of large beetles," is 

 this note : 



"This bird is found in Alabama only in warm weather; 

 appearing here in the spring and leaving on the approach 

 of cold weather. It is insectivorous hence it must go to 

 some climate farther south, where insects abound dur- 

 ing our winter." 



Of course the Doctor had reference to flying insects 

 such as comprise the food of the goatsuckers. 



