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THE BIRDS OF WISCONSIN. 
reach. Mr. W. E. Snyder records three specimens from Dodge 
County — in June, October, and November. W e took a single 
specimen in Milwaukee County in May, 1882, but in no part of 
the state have we ever found it as plenty as along the bottom 
lands of Koshkonong Creek, Jefferson County. 
Colaptes auratus luteus BanffS. NORTHERN FLICKER. 
A very common summer resident in all parts of the state. 
This is especially true of the older settled sections. Arrives in 
southern Wisconsin from the middle of March to the first week 
in April, according to the season, and though the greater 
portion have left for the south by the middle of October, a few 
are found a full month later. Less common in the heavy pine 
regions. In sections where suitable trees are scarce, . this 
species will sometimes bore a hole in the gable end of a clap- 
board house and deposit its eggs on the first convenient cross 
timber between the board and plaster. One instance which 
came to our notice was wdiere an opening was made in the loft 
of a barn, and the eggs simply deposited on some hay in one 
corner, several feet from the hole. An ant-eating, ground- 
feeding species, very different in habits from the rest of the 
woodpeckers. We have taken two specimens in southern 
Wisconsin, which show a slight tendency toward the red- 
shafted. One male in the Kumlien collection, Milton, Wis., 
May 10, 1892, has a very liberal sprinkling of scarlet in the 
usual black "moustache," besides some minor intermediate 
characters. 
ORDER MACROCHIRES: GOATSUCKERS, 
SWIFTS, ETC. 
FAHILY CAPRinULQID/E: GOATSUCKERS. 
Antrosiomus vociferus (Wils.). WHIP-POOR-WILL. 
This bird was formerly a very common summer resident in 
all thickly wooded sections of the state, and is still locally 
common wherever there is thick underbrush, or in such places 
as have not been pastured or burned over. It usually arrives 
in southern Wisconsin from the first to the tenth of May, and 
leaves for the south early in September. Nearly all observers 
