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least two occasions I have noted a bird or two at Carter Notch 

 (3,360 feet), in the latter month. This deep notch or cleft in 

 the mountain wall, with a valley opening out to the north and 

 another to the south, seems to serve as a passageway for a 

 number of birds in migration, and I doubt not that these flick- 

 ers had paused here to rest on their southward flight, for dur- 

 ing the breeding season I have never observed them above 2,000 

 feet on these mountains. Mr. Ned Dearborn ('98, p. 19) has 

 recorded that he has twice seen a flicker in Alton in January. 

 At Hampton Falls, on the coast, Mr. W. E. Cram ('99) finds 

 the bird a regular winter resident. 



137. Aiiti'ostoiniis vociferiis (Wils.). Whip-poor- 

 will. 



A common summer resident of the Transition regions of the 

 southern part of the state, but becoming rarer and local far- 

 ther north. In some parts of central New Hampshire 

 it is very common, as at Newfound Lake. On the out- 

 skirts of the White Mountains it is local in the southern valleys, 

 being found about ponds in dry sandy woods where there is an 

 undergrowth of Bear Oak {Quercus ilici folia) , brake and blue- 

 berr}' bushes. In such a locality, a few are to be found ever)' 

 summer at North Conway, two miles south of Intervale, in the 

 Saco valley. Frank Bolles ('95b) found them about his 

 " lyonely L^ke " at Chocorua, and at Lancaster, Mr. F. B. 

 Spaulding has observed the bird also. Although their nightly 

 serenades gradually cease as the summer wanes, the birds nev- 

 ertheless remain upon their breeding grounds until well into 

 vSeptember, and Frank Bolles notes them about his lake, so late 

 as September 25. 



Dates : May 6 to September 25. 



138. Cliordeiles virginianiis (Gmel.). Nighthawk. 

 A common spring and fall migrant, and a rather common sum- 

 mer resident of the Transition regions in the lower part of the 

 state, following the valleys up well into the lowlands of the 

 White Mountains. In summer it is usuall}- found in dry open 

 woods, where there is more or less scrubby undergrowth. In 



