1 86 Scott, Supplementary Notes on Florida Birds. [April 



Campephilus principalis. Ivory-billed Woodpecker. — The follow- 

 ing account of the nest and first plumage of this species was made bj the 

 writer near Tarpon Springs, on March 17, 18S7 : " To-day found nest of 

 Ivorj-billed Woodpecker, and obtained both parent birds and the single 

 young bird which was the occupant of the nest. The cavity for the nest 

 was dug in a large cypress tree, in the midst of a dense swamp, and was 

 forty-one feet from the ground. The opening was oval in shape, being 

 three and one half inches wide and four and a half inches high. The 

 same cavity had apparently been used before for a nesting place; it was 

 cylindrical in shape and a little more than fourteen inches deep. The 

 young bird in the nest was a female, and though one-third grown had not 

 yet opened its eyes. The feathers of the first plumage were apparent, be- 

 ginning to cover the down, and were the same in coloration as those of 

 the adult female bird." 



These birds, I am told by all old residents, were once very common in 

 this region. But they are now comparatively rare and very shy. The 

 same day that the nest was found eleven were counted in the swamp in 

 question, sometimes four or five being in sight at once. The three spoken 

 of were all that were obtained, the adults being the parents of the young 

 female bird. 



Chordeiles virginianus chapmani. Chapman's Nighthawk. — There 

 are before me both the eggs and one 3'oung bird in the down, of this sub- 

 species. The bird was taken, together with the parents, on June 17, 18S7, 

 near Tarpon Springs, by Mr. W. S. Dickinson, at that time my assistant. 

 The young bird is apparently five or six days old. The down is dirty 

 Avhite beneath, and on all other parts is the same dirty white mixed with 

 spots of black, giving the bird an appearance above not unlike the young 

 of ^^gialitis wilsonia, save that the down is longer. The egg is very 

 similar in color and markings to that of C. virginianus, and measures 

 1.20 X .90 inches. 



Icterus spurius. Orchard Oriole. — A rather common migrant on 

 the west coast of Florida in the vicinity of Tarpon Springs, appearing 

 from the 5th to the 25th of April. The males are in full song, but I have 

 no later record of the species than those given above, and do not think 

 it breeds here. 



Chondestes grammacus. Lark Sparrow. — The records previously 

 given (see Auk, Vol. IV, No. 2, p. 133) are now supplemented by an 

 adult female taken by Mr. J. W. Atkins, at Key West, on October 3, 1887, 

 and a single bird observed at Tarpon Springs by the writer on November 

 2, 1887. The species is probably a rare regular migrant and winter resi- 

 dent in the southwestern portion of Florida. 



Peucaea aestivalis. Pine-Woods Sparrow. — Occurs abundantly as a 

 common resident, breeding about Tarpon Springs. 



Peucaea aestivalis bachmanii. Bachman's Sparrow. — Occurs as a rare 

 bird in the breeding season, but not uncommon in early fall and winter 

 about Tarpon Springs. 

 Vireo altiloquus barbatulus. Black-whiskered Vireo. — A common 



