224 NESTS AND EGGS OF 



414 Colaptes chrysoides (Malh.) [379 ] 



Gilded Flicker. 



Hab. Southern California, Lower California ; Southern Arizona, 



Mr. F. Stephens regards the distribution of this species in Arizona 

 as coextensive with that of the giant cactus, for he never met with it 

 except where this singular plant grows.* Mr. Scott states that it is 

 common throughout the giant cactus region all about Tucson, and he 

 occasionally saw single individuals in the mesquite timber. All that 

 he ever met with breeding have been in giant cactus. The nesting time 

 is from April 10 until the last of May. According to Mr. Scott, the num- 

 ber of eggs is small, varying from two to five ; the latter number being 

 the largest he ever found in a nest.f The eggs are glossy-white, and 

 average 1.12X.84. 



415. Colaptes ruflplleus Rmcw [380. J 



Guadalupe Flicker. 



Hab. Guadalupe Island, Lower California. 



Mr. Walter E. Bryant gives us the first knowledge we have con- 

 cerning the nesting and eggs of this bird.J On Guadalupe Island he 

 found it not rare in the restricted area of a large cypress grove, but 

 apart from this locality less than a dozen were seen during his stay on 

 the Island. For a portion of the year the food of this species consists 

 largely of smooth-skinned caterpillers,with numerous beetles and ants. 

 The nesting-cavities are found at heights varying from three to fifteen 

 feet. The scarcity of decayed trees, with the exception of fallen ones, 

 necessitates either work upon seasoned wood or the resort to dead palm 

 stumps. A cavity was found April 7, which was dug to the depth of 

 twenty inches, and contained six fresh eggs, upon which the female 

 was sitting. They correspond exactly, both in color and general shape, 

 with scores of other eggs of this genus, and offer the following meas- 

 urements in millimeters: 28x22, 28x22, 28x22.5, 29x22, 29.5x22, 

 29.5 X 22. § 



416. Antrostomus carolinensis (Gmel.) [353.] 



G]iiick-iirilVs-\rido'w. 



Hab. South Atlantic and Gulf States and Lower Mississippi Valley, north to the Carolinas and 

 niinois. 



Perhaps the two best known North American species of this fam- 

 ily {Caprimidgidcz ^ the Goatsuckers), are the Whip-poor-will, Antros- 

 tomus vociferiis, and the Nighthawk, Chordeiles virginiaims. They 

 are all more or less nocturnal, and fanciful imaginations have detected 



* Wm. Brewster on a collection of Arizona birds. Bull. Nutt Club, Vol. VIII, 24. 



fThe Auk, III, 429. 



X Addition to the Ornithology of Guadalupe Island; Bulletin 6, California Academy of Sciences, pp. 

 285-288. 



gl.l0x.87,1.10x.87, l.lOx.89, l.Hx.87, 1.16X.87, 1.16X.87. 



