210 Lacey, Birds of KemriMe, Texas. LAprll 



85. Colaptes cafer collaris. Red-shafted Flicker. — Common in 

 winter. Earliest autumn record September 20 (twice). 1 have shot 

 flickers with red and also with black nioust aches but have never seen any 

 that were not red under the wings. 



86. Antrostomus carolinensis. Chuck-wills-widow. — Common 

 breeder; earliest date of arrival April 3; average April 13. Have found 

 fresh eggs April 30. 



ST. Antrostomus vociferus. Whip-poor-will. — 1 have only four 

 records for this bird — April IS and 23, and September 15 and L9. 



ss. Phalsenoptilus nuttalli. Poor-will. — Common. A few of 

 these birds must sometimes spend the winter with us as 1 have heard them 

 every month in the year except November. They usually arrive early 

 in February. The latest date of arrival 1 have dor twenty years' is March 

 13. 1 have found eggs as early as March 22. 



89. Chordeiles virginianus henryi. Western Nighthawk. — Com- 

 mon breeder. Earliest record, April 12; next earliest, April 23; average, 

 about April 29. 



00 Chaetura pelagica. Chimney Swift.- Have only seen them 

 on two occasions. April 29, 1894, and May 8, 1896. 



91. Archilochus colubris. Ruby-throated Hummingbird. — Seen 

 every year in April on the buck-eye blooms. 1 do not think it breeds here 

 but am not quite sure about it. 1 have never seen a male hummer near a 

 nest. 



92. Archilochus alexandri. Black-chinned Hummingbird. -Com- 

 mon. Earliesl arrival, March 1 1 ; average date of arrival, about March 20. 

 Latest in autumn, October '-Hi. On April 1, 1900, 1 watched a hummer 

 Starting the foundation of her nest; the next day she had nearly finished 

 the wall of the nest and she had it completed by the 6th and was sitting on 

 the 9th of the month. On April 30 1 watched her feeding the young ones; 

 the little fellows stretched their necks to the fullest extent and the old bird 

 put her bill full length down their throats. The young had left the nest 

 on the morning of May 11. The male bird never came near the nest. 

 A new nest is frequently built on the top of an old one. 



93. Muscivora forficata. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. — Common, 

 especially in the valleys. Earliest spring record, March 20 (twice); aver- 

 age, March 25. Latest autumn record, October 17. 1 have seen a family 

 party of them eating the berries of the poke weed which are here sup- 

 posed to be poisonous. 



94. Tyrannus tyrannus. Kingbird.— Nol very common in the 

 county but a few pairs breed here. Earliest record. April 22; average. 

 April 26. A nest with bird sitting on it, May 16. 



95. Tyrannus melancholicus couchi. Couch's Kingbird. — A 

 male shot at the ranch, September 11, 1008, extends greatly the known 

 range of the species in Texas. 



96. Tyrannus verticalis. Arkansas Kingbird. — Not uncommon 

 in migration, spring and autumn, though we are at the extreme eastern 



