BIRDS OF EAST PENNSYLVANIA. 11 



Golden- winged Wood- Colaptes auratus. Flickee. Yellow- 

 pecker. shafted Woodpecker. High Hole. 



Abundant, and generally distributed, 

 but much more plentiful in Summer. 

 There is a partial migration south in 

 October, the birds returning about the 

 end of March. 



ORDER— VOLITORES. (Birds moving chiefly by Flight.) 



Kuby- throated Humming TrocUlus coluhris. Humming Bird. 

 Bird. Rather plentiful in Summer, and 



abundant in warm seasons, being 

 met with from the end of April to 

 the beginning of October. It is 

 frequent in gardens, where its habit 

 of roaming among the flowers has 

 been so beautifully depicted by 

 Wilson in the well-known verses, 

 "When morning dawns." (S.) 



Belted Kingfisher. . . Ceryle alcyon. Kingfisher. Not 

 uncommon; arriving early in April, 

 and departing in October. A few, 

 however, remain during the Winter. 

 It is more abundant inland than on 

 the coast. (S.) 



