Random Notes from Arkansas 
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nesting site is a telephone pole or suitably deadened timber in 
the open fields. He clings tenaciously to a chosen locality, and 
does not seriously object to association with the English Sparrow 
who may have taken lodging in an older nest in li is “own ” pole. 
The Red-headed Woodpecker generally lays a clutch of five 
eggs, though rarely six may be taken. 
Red-bellied Woodpecker ( Centurus carol inus) 
This beautiful species is common to all the regions visited in 
Arkansas, but it can hardly be said to be as sociable as it is 
reported to be. Somewhat inaccessible nesting sites are fre- 
quently chosen, and he is still a lover of the deep woods. One 
nest from which a full set of four eggs was taken was fully 
seventy feet from the ground, in the dead limb of an immense 
Rost Oak. Five eggs of this species must be considered unusual. 
The note of this Woodpecker is less harsh than that of the Red- 
headed but cannot be mistaken even at a distance when one is 
familiar with it. 
Chuck-will’s- widow ( Antrostomus carolinensis ) 
This is the most abundant “goatsucker” in Arkansas, and 
quite generally distributed. It is especially abundant in the 
lower foothills of the Ozarks. I have found it very common along 
the Ouachita river in Garland and Hot Spring counties and es- 
pecially so in Pope county along Big Piney creek. I have col- 
lected the eggs of the Chuek-will’s-widow at Fayetteville in 
Washington county, near Conway in Faulkner county, near 
London in Pope county, and they have been collected near Van 
Buren and Fort Smith in Sebastian and Franklin counties. 
Whip-poor-will ( Antrostomus voci ferns ) 
The area to which this species has been restricted must now 
lie greatly extended. A set of eggs was taken this year on Big 
Piney creek, seven miles west of Dover in Pope county, on May 
19th of this year. A splendid photograph of this nest was se- 
cured. Though much rarer than its larger cousin it can also be 
found in all the foothills of the Ozarkian uplift, and doubtless 
will be reported from the tier of counties along the western 
border of the state, well down to the Texas line. 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) 
It has been my good fortune to locate many nests of this 
little Hummer this season. The behavior of the female will 
