C ambr i dg e , Ma s s . 
C ol apt es auratus luteus . 
January birds in the Garden. 
The Flickers came into the garden every few days, either 
singly or two birds in company. They ignored the suet but 
after the middle of the month were frequently seen eating of 
the abundant fruit of a Parkman's apple tree. I heard their 
k i -u call several times but there has been neither "shouting" 
nor drumming. 
February birds in the Garden. 
The Flickers have been almost unceasing in their atten- 
February. tions to the Parkman's apple tree but they do not seem to have 
perceptibly diminished its bountiful supply of fruit. This is 
perhaps not to be wondered at since this little tree con- 
tained, last Novenber , according to a computat ion made by 
Walter at least 45,000 apples. These apples are scarce larger 
than currants and the Flickers swallow them whole. A male 
and a female or two males and a female have usually appeared 
in company but once we saw two males together and on another 
occasion a male and two females. Hence there must have been 
at least four birds in all. They have been absolutely silent 
during the whole month. On the morning of the 23th I saw a 
pair hopping about together on a space of bare turf under the 
elm over the driveway where a piece of suet hangs. They were 
picking up something which I believe to have been fragments 
of suet that had fallen from above but I could not make sure 
1899. 
January. 
