1892
July 5
(No 3)
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord- nearly two hours making scarcely any noise,
however. During this time I did not hear a sound from
the young Woodpeckers save once when their parent came
into the tree [delete][?][/delete] and, seeing me probably, called anxiously
a number of times using the long laugh but giving it
in soft, low tones. To this the young responded with a
subdued chatter. The parent bird did not go to the
nest and soon flew off.
[margin]Brood of
young Flickers[/margin]

  The young have not as yet climbed to the top of
the cavity. They sit or rather squat in the bottom, tails
in, breasts against the walls, [delete]bills pointing upwards[/delete]
filling the space with a mass of mottled black, brown
& drab plumage, above which, pointing upward, rise
the five long bills each tipped with white as already
described. Their glistening dark eyes are also conspicuous
and they wink frequently. [delete]as one watches them.[/delete] I
took out one to-day when it struggled violently and
set up a loud, shrill screaming. [delete]I could see an
unhatched egg among them[/delete] . The nest now has a rank,
foul smell but the plumage of the young is clean
and perfectly free from vermin. [delete][?][/delete] Each young bird
still has the ivory white mark on the top of the
upper mandible and also a conspicuous whitish glandular
excrescence on each side of the lower mandible at its
base. This excrescence is flattened and about as large
as [diagram].