Colarites auratus 
Concord, 
1396 o 
Apr .16. 
Mass . 
At about 7 A.M. a Flicker began to "shout" behind the 
cabin but suddenly breaking off resumed in an unusual manner 
giving the notes disconnectedly by twos with intervals of va- 
rying length between the pairs. The varying direction of the 
sound indicated that the bird was flying, and rushing to the 
door we 'were just in time to see him cross the river and 
meadow keeping up his interrupted shout until he alighted in 
an oak on the opposite shore. I think that when he began 
shouting he must have been perched in a tree on the crest of 
Ball's Hill but this is assumption merely. 
Neither Faxon nor I have ever heard a Flicker shout on 
wing before, but Coonhloeus nileatus often does it. 
