1867. 
Sopt,28, 
1868, 
Aug.a 2, 
1869, 
July & 
Aug. 
1870. 
June 27. 
July 28- 
Aug, 13. 
Sept,2-9 
1871. 
Oct. 18. 
1875. 
June 17. 
Sept.23. 
“ 27. 
1876. 
Dec. 6. 
1882. 
June 28. 
23T 
Colaptes auratus. 
Saw one alight on the roof of a barn and hopping 
along sideways, trying to enter a hole under the eaves 
(Plymouth,Mass,). 
Sawone among the Franconia Mountains, 
Pound it common, breeding, at the foot of Mt.Wash¬ 
ington, N.H. 
Nest with two eggs, excavated in the side of an 
ice house at Hyannis ,Cape Cod, a corrsrion situation here 
we were told. 
Not numerous (Franconia Notch,N,H.). 
Abundant (Forks of the Kennebec,Maine). 
Abundant, Breeds regularly in ice, as at Hyannis 
(Marston’s Mills, Mass.). 
One on Mt.Wauchusett, 
Numbers on the road to Siasconsett. 
Shot a young female with decided traces of black a 
cheekpateh. She was on the ground in a sandy tract 
miles from any trees (Nantucket). 
Much more numerous hero than about Cambridge 
frequently associating with Meadow Larks and feeding with 
them on the ground (Marston’s Mills, Mass.). 
Examined four young in a nest at Milton. They 
wore nearly feathered but unable to fly. All had the 
red nuchal patch but none the rod wash on the crown usual 
in the first plumage. In all the black malar stripes 
were indicated by a line of sprouting pin-feathers, 
the only individual variation in this reppect being that 
two of the four had these feathers appreciably lighter 
colored, or very dark plumbeous instead of black, I 
think it probable that those tv/-o are females. The young 
of this species makes a noise exactly like the hissing of 
snakes (Milton,Mass.). 
