No. 2O.] THE BIRDS OF CONNECTICUT. 97 



alighted on this pole. Recently large numbers of these birds, 

 sometimes as many as several hundred in the course of an hour 

 in the early morning, flying rapidly westward, have been seen 

 by L. B. B. near New Haven, Sept. 28, 1898, Sept. 25, 1900, 

 Sept. 29, 30, 1903, Sept. 22, 1904. 



Nest. A hollow excavated by the bird, or a natural cavity 

 in a tree, at from 5 to 30 feet from the ground. 



Eggs. 5-10, commonly 7 or 8; latter part of May. 



Nesting dates. Earliest record. May 9, 1896, five eggs (J. 

 H. S.). Latest record. June 19, 1872, seven eggs (J. H. S.) ; 

 July 12, 1881, six young (L. B. B.). 



L. B. B. found a nest, June 6, 1882, containing n eggs and 

 2 young; but, as one-half the eggs were perfectly fresh, the 

 cavity was doubtless occupied by two females; one taken by C. 

 W. W., May 21, 1888, contained 10 eggs. 



Forty-eight holes made by woodpeckers were counted on one 

 side of a large dead stump in the woods at Guilford by L. B. B., 

 March 14, 1885, about twenty of them having been made by this 

 species. 



A. H. V. shot a Flicker with the upper mandible so deformed 

 as to be useless for working on wood, Sept. 28, 1897; an d L. 

 B. B., one with the feet and head so badly infected with some 

 kind of fungous disease that one eye was entirely closed, Oct. 16, 

 1906; both are in coll. of L. B. B. 



Order MACROCHIRES. Goatsuckers, Swifts, etc. 



Suborder CAPRIMULGI. Goatsuckers, etc. 



Family CAPRIMULGID^E. Goatsuckers, etc. 



Antrostomus carolinensis (Gmelin). Chuck-will's-widow. 

 A mounted specimen in the Peabody Museum was caught 

 alive by Mr. Decatur Morgan in New Haven, May 17, 1889. 

 This bird has been recorded also by Mr. A. H. Verrill. 1 



Antrostomus vociferus vociferus (Wilson). Whip-poor- 

 will. 



A common summer resident of woodland from May to 

 August. 



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