846 REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



injurious to trees. In fact, except ants, of which it eats great num- 

 bers, it is not so destructive to insects as the other Woodpeckers are. 

 The stomachs of 230 Flickers examined showed animal food 56 per 

 cent.; vegetable food, 39 per cent.; mineral food, 5 per cent. Of the 

 animal matter, which was insects, the percentage was divided as fol- 

 lows: Ants, 43 per cent.; beetles, and their larvae, 10; caterpillars, 1; 

 grasshoppers, 1; spiders and myriapods, 1 (Beal, Bulletin No. 7, Div. 

 0. and M., U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 11). Several stomachs contained noth- 

 ing but ants. In two, the actual number of ants in each stomach ex- 

 ceeded 3,000 (Ibid, p. 17). The vegetable material it eats is principal- 

 ly that which grows wild. 



X. ORDEK MACROCHIRES GOATSUCKERS, 

 SWIFTS, ETC. 



SUBORDER CAPRIMULGI. GOATSUCKERS, ETC. 

 XXXIII. FAMILY CAPRIMULGHXE, GOATSUCKERS, ETC. 



a 1 . Ciape with long bristles; tail even or rounded; plumage fluffy. 



ANTKOSTOMUS. 9S 

 a 2 . Gape without long bristles; tail forked; plumage more compact. 



98. GKNUS A NTKOSTOMUS GOULD. 



a 1 . Wing over 8.00 ; rictal bristles with lateral branches. 



A. carolinensis (Gmel.). 167 

 2 . Wing under 7.00; rictal bristles not branched. A. vociferus (Wils.). 168 



*167. (416). Antrostomus carolinensis (GMEL.). 



Chuck- Will's- Widow. 



Adult Male. Bristles at the base of bill, branched. Above, mottled 

 with gray ochraceous, tawny and black, and more or less streaked with 

 black; primaries, dusky spotted, with ochraceous. Below, tawny or 

 buffy and grayish, mottled with dusky; throat and crissum, more 

 ochraceous; inner web of three outer tail-feathers, white or ochrace- 

 ous. Adult Female. Similar, but inner web of three outer tail-feath- 

 ers without white. 



Length, 11.00-12.00; wing, 8.70-8.90; tail, 6.26-6.30. 



RANGE. America, from Colombia and West Indies north to south- 

 ern Virginia, "West Virginia, southern Indiana, Southern Illinois and 



