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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., IT. 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. 



N. ORDER MACROCHIRES. GOATSUCKERS, 

 SWIFTS, ETC. 



SUBORDER CAPRIMULGI. GOATSUCKERS, ETC. 

 XXXIII. FAMILY CAPRIMULGID^, GOATSUCKERS, ETC. 



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



ANTROSTOMUS. 9S 

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



CHORDEILES. 99 



98. GKNUS ANTROSTOMUS GOULD. 



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



A. carolinensis (Gmel.). 167 

 a 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. 



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

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



