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ping calls on the trunks of trees, which were auditable at a 
great distance in still weather: both sexes incubate. 
9 * Hylo tomus pilcatus , said to be frequent though we did not 
see it. 
10 • Melanerpes erythrocephalus , took a fine female May 30; was 
probably a mere straggler. 
11• O olaptes aur atus, quite scarce; breeds 
12. Trochi lus colubris, quite frequent; breeds 
13 • Chaetura pelasgla , common: do not think that it breeds in 
hollow trees as we found none away from the settlement. 
14. Antrostomu s voclferus , a single male sang every night near 
the hotel: is said to occur everywhere in the woods. 
15. Chordeiles popetue , quite common breeding. The females 
for three nights (June 4th, 5th and 6th) when about to deposit 
their eggs, came in large numbers to a small patch of cultivated 
ground in front of the hotel where they moved about in the dusk 
with a strange awkward sidling motion, apparently picking up 
the fresh earth. So tame were they that if one was shot the 
others paid no attention, but continued feeding. The males 
kept high up in the air occasionally swooping down and utter¬ 
ing their strange cooing note. 
16 • C eI> yl e alcyon, freguent on the lake, a £ taken June 10 
had not commenced to lay. 
I 1 ?. Tyr annus Garolinensis , rather scarce, saw them occasionally 
on the lake among the "stubs”. 
18. Sayornis fusc us, saw a few males. 
