History of 
Flicker *q 
nest 
consisted of I can only conjecture, for I did not succeed 
in finding any of It in the nest or attached to the U 11s of 
the young, and I c uld not bring myself to kill one of the 
latter .and settle the point in that way# 
On the moral .% of the 6th, 1 found the young for 
the first time clin 0 i:g to the -walls of their cell about * 
midway between the bottom and top. I ter in the day they 
when 
showed their hands at the opening where the parent cone to 
feed them and on the 7th they spent,much of their time 
peeping out over the rim with evident curiosity and interest 
a id two climbed quite o tslde at. one time. .hen a boot 
appeared or there oras any sudden noise, they would all 
instantly and silently slip back out of sight. On the 7th 
md frequently afterwards I heard the tapping on the 
interior of the old shell. 
At six o* clock on the evening of the 9th 1 looked 
into the nest end counted all five of the young. They 
seemed to be fully grown and ;pe rfeotly feathered,- All were 
colored precisely alike as far as I Could see and every one 
had the black'mustache as extensive, deeply-colored, and 
co apicuouc as ii the typical adult male of this species. 
The Whit* mask on the a .cl of the'bill had been dim in:! shing 
for several days before this and on this evening I noticed 
that in two or three birds it had almost wholly dis¬ 
appeared while in the others it was now confined to the extreme 
tip of the bill. 
