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185. (413). Colaptes cafer collaris {y'x^oxs) . Red-shafted Flicker. 



The Red-shafted Flicker is the species found from the Plains 

 to the Pacific, overlapping the range of the preceding species 

 and intermingling and intergrading with it in many instances. 

 The intermediate specimens have been sometimes classed as a 

 separate species, Colaptes hybridus Baird, etc. It occurs rather 

 frequently near the western border of Iowa, and individuals occa- 

 sionally straggle to other portions of the state. 



County records: Blackhawk — " A pair reported from Black- 

 hawk county by Mr. Field of the State Normal. I think they 

 were taken last fall — 1903 " (Peck). Boone — Two were seen and 

 one shot near Boone by Cal Brown, Dec. 29, 1895 (Henning, Iowa 

 Orn., ii, 3, p. 75). Cass — -"only record, one in my collection 

 killed near .\tlantic, Sept. 25, 1896" (Pellett). Hardin — "In 

 September, 1897, I found the remains of a specimen that had 

 been killed " (Peck). Pottawattamie-Mills — "common summer 

 resident" (Trostler). Sioux — ''tolerably common near Hawarden; 

 shot two" (Berry). Tama — "a pair observed in Tama county 

 about twent}' 3^ears ago by Mrs. E. M. Poyneer. The record- is 

 perfectly reliable" (Peck). Van Buren — " This flicker was shot 

 about fifteen years ago and after a lot of overhauling was pro- 

 nounced a hybrid" (W. J. Savage). Woodbury — "uncommon 

 summer resident. One shot Sept. 23, 1894; another Oct. 25, 

 1900 ; also a record of one male Oct. 19, 1900. Others have been 

 seen and shot " (Rich). " While the bird is not common in this 

 part of the state, yet it is very frequently found. I have observed 

 it here nearly every season for twenty odd years and have secured 

 quite a number of specimens, including several hybrids, as I sup- 

 pose them to be the offspring representing the crosses between 

 the Red-shafted and Yellow-shafted Flicker" (D. H. Talbot, 

 Sioux City, Iowa Orn., i, 3, 1895, p. 74). Winnebago — I have 

 one specimen in my collection which was shot at Forest City in 

 winter of 1890 or 1891 (Anderson). 



Order MACROCHIRES. Goatsuckers, Hummingbirds, etc. 

 Suborder CAPRIMULGI. Goatsuckers. 

 Family CAPRIMULGID^. Goatsuckers. 



The Goatsucker family, so named from a traditional supersti- 

 tion, compri.ses the Whipporwills and Nighthawks. They are 



