1922] Swarth: Birds and Mammals of the Stikine Region 221 



A few flickers were seen in the woods about Glenora, perhaps one 

 or two daily. At Doeh-da-on Creek a few were seen, at long intervals. 

 None was observed any farther down the river. 



Three specimens were obtained (nos. 39787-39789), all adult 

 females, two from Telegraph Creek and one from Glenora. Specifi- 

 cally, they are all purely of the yellow-shafted auratus type, as regards 

 color and markings. None shows any adniixture of cafer character- 

 istics, though the breeding ground of the northwest subspecies of that 

 species {Colaptes cafer cafer^) approaches this region very closely. No 

 red-shafted flickers were seen by us at any point, though cafer may 

 be expected to ascend the Stikine for some distance. Subspecifically 

 the large size of these birds places them with the form Colaptes auratus 

 horealis Ridgway (1911, p. 31). 



TABLE VI 



Measurements in millimeters of Colaptes auratus horealis from the upper Stikine 



Valley 



No. Sex Wing Tail Culmen 



39787 9 162 106 37 



39788 9 163 105 32 



39789 9 160 106 33 



Chordeiles virginianus virginianus (Gmelin). Eastern Nighthawk 

 Abundant at Telegraph Creek. The first was heard calling the even- 

 ing of June 8, the next day one was seen flying overhead, and soon after 

 the birds became common. The species was about as numerous at 

 Glenora; at Doeh-da-on Creek it occurred in lesser numbers. None 

 was seen farther down the river. 



Three sets of eggs were taken (nos. 1807-1809). On June 20, a 

 single fresh egg, an incomplete set, was found near Telegraph Creek, 

 laid on the bare ground in open woods. The female, shot before the 

 egg was found, contained a second egg, nearly ready to be laid. A 

 set of two eggs, slightly incubated, was taken June 26 in the same 

 tract of woods. This was an area that had been burned over, leaving 

 a scattering growth of small lodgepole pines, with but little under- 

 brush between. A third set was collected at Doch-da-on Creek, July 18. 

 These were incubated within a few days of hatching. The eggs were 

 placed on the bare ground in an open place in the woods. On all sides, 

 some thirty or forty yards distant, there was dense brush, but the 

 ground was open in the immediate vicinity of the eggs. 



2 For the use of this name for the northwestern flicker, see Palmer, 1916, p. 322. 



