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drawing out such information, as it is not easy for 

 an individual observer, to meet with all the species 

 of birds, where there are such numbers, as occur in 

 the district of Montreal. 



Genus Colaptes. Swain son. 



137. Flicker. (Golden-winged Woodpecker; High- 

 older.) C. auratus. (Linn.) 

 " Summer Resident," common. Breeds in Mount 

 Royal Park. Observed from April 9 to October 

 10. I found a nest of this woodpecker June 8, 

 1882, at Bedford, P.Q., in the trunk of an old beech 

 tree, containing two younglings, five eggs incubated 

 and one egg quite fresh ; also another nest in the 

 decayed trunk of a beech tree in the woods below 

 Hochelaga June 3, 18*3, containing four eggs, and 

 in the same tree two eggs; May 21, 1887, another 

 nest, with one egg, in a hole in the dead limb of a 

 a tree on the spur of Mount Royal. The flicker's 

 nests can often be discovered by the quantity of 

 chips strewn over the ground under the tree, from 

 the hole they have been excavating in it. 



Order MACROCHIRES. Goatsuckers, Swifts, etc. 



Suborder Caprimulgi. Goatsuckers, etc. 



Family Caprimulgidce. Goatsuckers. 



Genus Antrostomus. Gould. 

 138. . Whippoorwill. A. vociferus. (Wils.) 



" Transient Visitant,'' scarce. This bird is said 



