290 THE BIRDS OF MAIKE ' 



I have often taken an egg or so from nests of this species, 

 leaving one or two as nest eggs and kept them laying for a 

 longer period, sometimes getting eleven or twelve eggs in this 

 way. Near Dunlap, Illinois, they may have eggs by the mid- 

 dle of May and from then through June fresh eggs can be 

 found. If robbed they usually lay another set in the same 

 nest. The call note is a "chirr, chirr" and they also utter a 

 rolling "ker-ruk, ker-r-r-r-uk". 



Genus COLAPTES Swainson. 



412a. Colaptes auratus hdens Bangs. Northern Flicker; 



Yucker; High-Hole; Clape; Golden-winged Woodpecker; 



Yellow-hammer; Wake-up; Ant-eater. 



Plumage of adult males : a red band across back of neck ; a broad black 

 moustache like stripe on either side of throat from base of bill backward ; 

 top of head ashy gray ; back and wing coverts brownish gray with black 

 bars ; visible portion of primaries from above blackish, save the shafts which 

 are golden yellow ; wings underneath yellow, more or less dusky marked in 

 broken bars towards ends of feathers ; rump white ; upper tail coverts barred 

 or streaked black and white ; tail black above ; shafts of feathers of tail 

 black at tips and golden yellow towards base ; tail yellow below with broad 

 black tips to feathers, the outer feathers white barred or margined at tips ; 

 sides of throat, head and upper breast vinaceous ; a broad black band across 

 breast ; under parts white or vinaceous tinged, thickly and heavily spotted 

 with rounded spots of black. Plumage of adult female : the black moustache 

 like streaks at side of throat lacking but otherwise similar. Wing 5.50 to 6.50 ; 

 culmen 1.30. 



Geog. Dist. — Northern and eastern America, south to South Carolina and 

 west to the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains and Alaska in the breeding 

 season ; wintering from Massachusetts southward. 



County Records. — Androscoggin; abundant summer resident, (Johnson). 

 Aroostook; common summer resident, (Knight). Cumberland; common 

 summer resident, (Mead) ; a Flicker has been living in Portland all winter, 

 (Brownson, J. M. 0. S., 1907, p. 17). Franklin ; common summer resident, 

 (Swain). Hancock; common summer resident, (Murch); common on the 

 wooded islands of the coast, (Knight). Kennebec ; quite common summer 

 resident, (Gardiner Branch). Knox; summer resident, (Rackliff). Oxford; 

 common, breeds, (Nash). Penobscot; breeds commonly, and is the most 

 common of our Woodpeckers, (Knight). Piscataquis; common, (Homer). 

 Sagadahoc; common summer resident, (Spinney). Somerset; common sum- 

 mer resident, (Morrell). Waldo; common summer resident, (Knight). 



