FLICKER. 



412. Colaptes auratus. 13 inches. 



Male with a black moustache mark; female without, 

 although young females in the first plumage show some 

 black. 



These birds are very often known as * ' Golden- 

 winged Woodpeckers," "High-holes" and about a 

 hundred other names in different localities. Flickers 

 are found commonly in woods, orchards or trees by the 

 roadside; on pleasant days their rapidly uttered, roll- 

 ing whistle may be heard at all hours of the day. 



Notes. A rapidly repeated whistle, cuk, cuk, cuk; 

 an emphatic quit-u, quit-u and several others of a 

 similar nature. 



Nest. A cavity in a tree, at any distance from the 

 ground. The white eggs usually, vary in number from 

 five to ten, but they have been known to lay as many 

 as seventy-one, where an egg was taken from the nest 

 each day. 



Eange. South Atlantic States. The Northern 

 Flicker (luteus) is found in North America east of the 

 Rocky Mountains. 3 



