But the most interesting result of the mild season was the wintering of 
Colaptes auratus. As a rule this species withdraws very early in Novem- 
ber, although my brother saw a straggler on November 13, 1881. t Yet 
while most of the birds disappeared in the autumn of 1888 about the usual 
time, I saw a single individual (perhaps the same one) almost every day- 
up to December 18. After that date I met with no more until January 1, 
1889, when I found a bird feeding on the berries of a mountain-ash tree 
within the City limits. A friend reported one on Cape Elizabeth on 
January 3, and Mr. Luther Redlon, of Portland, an accurate observer of 
birds, saw one in the Portland ‘Oaks’ on February 10. I met with one 
again on February 16, and also on the 2Sth of the same month. From 
the latter date up to March 1, not a day passed without my meeting with 
one. It may be worth while to note that all the birds seen after the first 
of November were males. So far as I am aware the Flicker has not be- 
fore been known to winter in Maine, though Mr. Everett Smith has re- 
corded J the capture of a single bird at Fort Popham, in January, 1885.— 
John Clifford Brown, Portland, Maine. 
t See Proc. Port. Soc. Nat. Hist., Dec., 1882. July, 1880, p. <2^7- 
+ Forest and Stream, February 5, 1885. 
SnmmerResIdents on South-west 
Coast of Maine. T.H, Montgomery, Jr., 
412 . Flicker. This was the only Wood- 
| pecker I saw, and I noticed but four or five at 
Bootlibay. 
&aadO, XSc Wot* 1890, p.iai 
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