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* Whip-poor-will. Antrostomus vociferus vociferus (Wils.) 

 The Whip-poor-will was not seen, but Eaton ('14, p. 164) says 

 of it: "In the Adirondacks it is confined mostly to the edges of 

 the wilderness and is not found in the depths of the spruce forests, 

 but invades the river valleys and clearings." 



Northern" Flicker. Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs 

 The Flicker is commonly associated with all aspects of the forest 

 except the dense woods. It is met with in the clearings and the 

 Burn, along the water margins of the forest, and the open portions 

 of the Bog. The Flicker requires principally dead timber in the 

 form of stubs, stumps and prone logs to forage on, and large, living 

 deciduous trees, where it can frolic with its mates. Furthermore, 

 the Flicker needs comparatively open localities of burn or clearing 

 where it can reach the ground in its quest for ants, for it spends 

 much of its time searching in the humus and rotting logs for ant 

 colonies. A considerable part of the tearing open of rotten stumps 

 in the woods is done by Flickers. Gaige ('14, p. 82) notes that 

 during the blueberry season the birds were flushed in numbers from 

 the ground among the bushes, and later haunted the wild cherry 

 trees in the same fashion. " Both fruits were favorites and the 

 birds stayed in their vicinity until after the fruits were gone." 



Red-headed Woodpecker. Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linn.) 

 Xot seen at Cranberry Lake by me in 1916, but has been reported 

 in both the western and the eastern borders of the Adirondack 

 plateau. This woodpecker is closely associated with oaks, and 

 hence there is little to attract it into the Adirondack mixed forest 

 except the beech nuts, which constitute an element of its food in 

 the lower valleys. 



Northern Pileated Woodpecker. PJilceotoums pileatus abicti- 



cola (Bangs) 



Length 17. Black; throat, two stripes on side of head, one on neck, 

 and wing-bar, white; top of head crested and bright scarlet. 



The northern variety of the Pileated Woodpecker, or Logcock, 

 was observed occasionally in dry open woods and evidences of its 

 work were seen in the large excavations made in dead stumps. In 

 the heavy woods where lumbering had been done in an early day 

 and the area left to recuperate, forming a mixture of mature decidu- 

 ous trees and conifers left at the early cutting, the Logcock was 

 frequently heard, but its numbers have lessened as its original range 

 has been invaded by the lumberman. Hoffmann ( '04, p. 219) aptly 

 characterizes the Pileated Woodpecker when he says: "It is a 

 mighty hewer of wood, leaving signs of its activity in nearly every 

 decaying tree and on many sound ones in its neighborhood. Where 

 it digs for grubs, it cuts out great rectangular mortise-like holes, 

 different from the round nesting holes of woodpeckers in general. 

 These holes often run deep into the tree, or run into each other 

 up and down the trunk. The noise of its hammering resounds 

 through the woods like the blows of a woodman's axe." 



