92 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Latest record. New Haven, Nov. 4, 1901, Nov. 13, 1875 

 (Merriam) -^ Portland, Npv. 22, 1895. 



Winter records. Feb. 13, 1874, Hartford (Humphrey) -^ Jan. 

 14, 1883, Portland (W. W. C.) ■? Jan. 15, 1883, Middletown (C. 

 H. N.) f Feb. 14, 1888, Seymour (Fames) ; Feb. 17, 1902, Say- 

 brook (J. N. C.) ; Jan. 17, 1905, Stamford (Vanhavenberg, re- 

 corded by Hoyt) ; winter, 1905-6, a number wintering in Stam- 

 ford (Porter) ; Jan. 20, 1906, North Haven (E. S. W.) ; New 

 Haven, one seen, Dec. 25, 1905 — ■ March 7, 1906, and Dec. 5, 

 1906 — March 17, 1907 (A. A. S.). 



Nest. A burrow excavated in a sand-bank to the depth of 

 4j^ to 7 feet; no nesting material as a rule for fresh eggs, while 

 those incubated repose on a mass of small fish bones and scales. 



Eggs. 4-10, .usually 7 ; latter part of May. 



Nesting dates. Earliest record. May 9, 1881, six eggs 

 (Beers). Latest record. July 2, 1881, seven young (L. B. B.). 



Unusual records. June, 1881, Litchfield, nest with ten young 

 (L. B. W.). 



May 10, 1904, a hole was found in a sand-bank near New 

 Haven by L. B. B. about which a pair of Rough-winged Swallows 

 were flying. Early in the morning of Monday, May 23, neither 

 hole nor swallows were to be seen, all evidence of the former 

 having disappeared by the caving of the bank, caused by the re- 

 moval of sand. After some effort the entrance was found, a 

 stick passing easily through the loose sand that concealed it. At 

 a depth of about five feet a male Kingfisher was found sitting 

 on seven eggs and a round pebble about the size of an &gg. This 

 bird must have remained there imprisoned since the carting of 

 sand ceased on Saturday, although with one stroke of its power- 

 ful bill it could have regained its freedom, to burrow out being, 

 apparently, beyond its mental power. 



Order PICI. Woodpeckers, Wrynecks, etc. 



Family PICID^. Woodpeckers. 



Dryobates villosus villosus (Linnaeus). Hairy Wood- 

 pecker. 



> Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 63. 

 *0. and O.f viii, 3, p. 24. 

 8 0, and O., viii, 4, p. 32. 



