Chapter D: E. Brown writes to me that this “is the common woodpecker of western (1)

Washington. It will outnumber all the other woodpeckers two to one.” Referring to its haunts on Mount Rainier, Taylor and Shaw (1927) say: “As the noisiest and most conspicuous, adaptable, and broadly distributed woodpecker in the park, the flicker is bound to achieve some notoriety. It avoids the dark woods, and undoubtedly prefers the tracts of dead stubs which are encountered at fairly frequent intervals around the mountain; for here both nesting sites and food are present in great abundance.”

Major Bendire (1895) says that “in western Oregon, and probably also in northwestern California, it appears to be found only on the summits of the different mountains between the Cascades and the coast during the breeding season, where the same moist climate prevails as is found in the immediate vicinity of the coast, while in the drier lowlands, such as the Umpqua, Rogue, and Willamette river valleys, it is replaced by” _Colaptes cafer collaris_.

_Nesting._--The nesting habits of the northwestern flicker do not seem to differ materially from those of its close relative farther south. D. E. Brown tells me that this bird “will nest anywhere where there is room to dig out a cavity large enough for the nest. I have found them in large stumps and in fenceposts and from 18 inches from the ground to 100 feet up. They will nest in birdboxes of suitable size and will use them for winter homes. The eggs are from 5 to 10 in number and may be found May 1 to August. Both birds incubate and, when incubation is advanced, sit very close; sometimes they are removed by hand.”

Harry S. Swarth (1911a) reports a nest, found at Portage Cove, Revillagigedo Island, Alaska, that “was in a dead stub, some fifty feet from the ground. The stump was so rotten that an attempt to climb it brought down the whole upper portion, including the nest, in a mass of disintegrated punk. * * * The nest tree was in a valley bordering a stream, in fairly open country, with clumps of scattered timber interspersed between the open meadows.”

_Eggs._--The eggs of this race are indistinguishable from those of the red-shafted flicker, except for a slight average difference in size. The measurements of 47 eggs average 29.37 by 22.37 millimeters; the eggs showing the four extremes measure =32.0= by 23.4, 30.6 by =24.3=, and =26.4= by =20.8= millimeters.

_Food._--What has been said about the food of the red-shafted flicker, and to a large extent that of the northern flicker, would apply equally well to the northwestern. D. E. Brown says in his notes: “It puts in most of its time feeding on the ground and becomes quite tame around houses. I once placed some cornmeal on the back porch for some small birds. A flicker lit on the porch and, approaching the meal, laid its head sideways nearly on the floor and ran its long tongue through the meal several times; it then turned its head over and repeated the operation from the other side, leaving a checkered effect on the meal.”

Theed Pearse writes to me from Vancouver Island that he has seen “a flicker picking up grains of rolled-oats off a flat surface by a sideways action of the beak.” Flickers at his feeding station fed on apples, but seemed to prefer suet or fat.

S. F. Rathbun, of Seattle, has sent me the following interesting note: “On one occasion in November I watched a northwestern flicker for more than an hour feeding on a closely cut lawn in our yard. At different times it had visited the spot, and I became somewhat curious to know what the food represented that the bird found. This time as soon as the woodpecker alighted it commenced tapping rapidly with its beak the surface of the lawn, from time to time driving its bill into the earth. Then when this was withdrawn oftener than not it held an earthworm or some large grub, which at once was eaten and then the tapping recommenced. On two occasions I could plainly see that its prey was cutworms. But what was of particular interest was the painstaking way in which the flicker worked over every inch of the small space to which it confined its attentions, for the spot was not larger than 10 by 15 feet, and this was gone over again and again. During the time I watched the flicker it captured more than a dozen earthworms, all of which were of good size, and also eight cutworms. Another action of the bird while it was hunting caught my attention. At odd times it would vigorously scratch the surface of the lawn as if to uncover some prey, and I noticed that each time this took place, a worm would be pulled from the earth by the bird.”

He says further, in a letter, regarding this observation: “At the time we watched it, the bird was so close we had difficulty at times in using the field glasses, so could readily see what it obtained. Sometimes it would pull an angleworm from the ground very much as a robin does, the worm stretched out to quite an extent.”

_Behavior._--There is nothing peculiar in the behavior of this flicker that would not apply to its close relatives equally well. But J. Hooper Bowles (1926) had his attention called in an interesting way to the regularity of its habits in going to roost. He was calling on a friend one afternoon in the fall of 1924, of which he writes: “I happened to remark that it was half past three, when my friend answered quickly, ‘In five minutes it will be bedtime for our Flicker.’ This somewhat astonished me, but we went outside the house and took a station where we could command a good view of a certain section of the eaves of the house. Sure enough, in about five minutes a Northwestern Flicker swooped up and hung itself woodpecker-fashion against a board under the eaves, where it composed itself for spending the night. The bird had been doing this with absolute regularity for some time, although it was of course broad daylight and bright sunshine.”

COLAPTES CAFER MARTIRENSIS Grinnell

SAN PEDRO FLICKER

HABITS

Under the above name, Dr. Joseph Grinnell (1927b) has separated and described the red-shafted flicker of the Sierra San Pedro Martir region of northern Baja California. He describes it as follows:

Similar in general characters to _Colaptes cafer collaris_
Vigors (topotypes from Monterey, California), but averaging
slightly smaller, bill more attenuated (especially more
compressed in terminal half), and tone of ground color on
head and on upper and lower surfaces in fresh plumage much
more gray (rather than brown or vinaceous). * * *

The relative depth and clearness of the gray on the throat
and sides of head and neck in _martirensis_ is a nearly
constant character, as is also the deep fuscous (of
Ridgway, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature, 1912,
pl. XLVI) tone of the back and of the top of the head,
in fresh, new plumage: on the sides of the body, and on
the chest surrounding the big black bar, there is little
hint of the bright vinaceous tinting that characterizes
_collaris_ from throughout upper California. Weathering
of the plumage toward spring tends to rob _martirensis_
of its most characteristic color tones, especially on the
top of the head which then becomes warmer brown, but not,
however, to the degree of brightness seen in _rufipileus_.
The latter is even browner than _collaris_.

He gives, as its range: “Sierra San Pedro Martir (San José, 2,500 feet, near La Grulla at 7,200 feet, and near Vallecitos at 7,500 feet) and Sierra Juárez (Laguna Hanson, 5,200 feet).” Elsewhere (1928b), he calls it a “common resident on the western slopes of the Sierra Juárez and Sierra San Pedro Martír; in winter invading westwardly to the seacoast. Breeds in Upper Sonoran and Transition zones.”

Its habits are probably similar to those of the species elsewhere.

Griffing Bancroft has sent me the measurements of a set of eight eggs, which average 26.87 by 22.16 millimeters; the eggs showing the four extremes measure =28.2= by 22.0, 26.8 by =22.8=, and =26.2= by =20.7= millimeters.

COLAPTES CHRYSOIDES CHRYSOIDES (Malherbe)

CAPE GILDED FLICKER

HABITS

Because Malherbe’s name was given to the first gilded flicker to be described, and because his type came from the Cape region of Baja California, this race becomes the type race of the species. Its range extends from about latitude 28° N. to the southern extremity of Baja California. It is about the same size as its nearest relative to the northward, _brunnescens_, but is decidedly lighter in coloration. It is smaller than _mearnsi_ and somewhat darker in coloration.

William Brewster (1902) says of its haunts: “Mr. Belding and Mr. Frazar agree as to the rarity of the Gilded Flicker on the higher mountains, where only a few individuals were seen by the former, and but two (both females, taken on the Sierra de la Laguna, April 29) obtained by the latter. The bird’s true home is evidently at the bases of the mountains, and among the foothills extending thence to the shores of the Pacific on the south and west, and to the Gulf on the east. Throughout this region it is a common species, although not so numerously represented as _Melanerpes uropygialis_. On the arid plains near the coast it breeds in the stems of the giant cactus.”

Griffing Bancroft (1930) says of this species in central Baja California, south of latitude 28°:

The birds are extremely wild, often flushing from a
distance of a quarter of a mile. They lay in old cavities
and, probably, also in those that are new; scarred sahuaro
dries so rapidly that a definite determination on this
point was not possible. The nests are usually twenty feet
or more above the ground and the cavities are generous; an
eight-inch diameter and a two-foot depth are not unusual.
Occasionally they will use natural openings in the cardón
or holes that have been chopped open by honey gatherers.

The flickers lay from early April until well into June.
The number of eggs in a clutch is normally three. With the
single exception of one set of five we found none larger,
and none smaller in which incubation had commenced.

The eggs of the Cape gilded flicker are apparently similar to those of other flickers, except in size. Mr. Bancroft (1930) gives the measurements of 18 eggs as averaging 26.3 by 20.9 millimeters. The measurements of 8 other eggs average 28.49 by 21.15 millimeters; the eggs, in this series, showing the four extremes measure =31.35= by 21.83, 30.15 by =22.22=, =25.90= by 20.70, and 26.70 by =20.00= millimeters.

Its habits in general are apparently similar to those the gilded flicker of Arizona, on which more has been published, and the reader is referred to the following account of _Colaptes chrysoides mearnsi_.

DISTRIBUTION

_Range._--Southern Arizona, southeastern California, and northwestern Mexico; nonmigratory.

The range of the gilded flicker extends =north= to extreme southeastern California (Duncan Flats); and southern Arizona (Antelope Peak, Bigbug, and the Salt River Bird Reservation). =East= to southeastern Arizona (Salt River Bird Reservation, Desert Wells, Picacho, Oracle, and Tombstone); central Sonora (Magdalena, Opodepe, Hermosillo, Cedros, and Camoa); and central Sinaloa (Culiacan). =South= to Sinaloa (Culiacan); and southern Baja California (Cape San Lucas). =West= to Baja California (Cape San Lucas, Todos Santos, Triunfo, Santa Margarita Island, San Javier, San Quintin, and the Alamo River); and southeastern California (Duncan Flats).

The range as outlined is for the entire species, which has been separated into three geographic races. The typical race, known as the Cape gilded flicker (_C. c. chrysoides_), is found in the Cape district of Baja California and north to about latitude 28° N. The San Fernando flicker (_C. c. brunnescens_) occurs only within a range of two degrees latitude in Baja California (lat. 28° to 30° N.). Mearns’s gilded flicker (_C. c. mearnsi_) is the race found in the southwestern United States, northwestern Baja California, and the mainland of Mexico.

_Egg dates._--Arizona: 24 records, April 1 to June 11; 12 records,
April 21 to May 20, indicating the height of the season.
Baja California: 16 records, April 6 to May 20; 8 records, April 10
to May 17.

COLAPTES CHRYSOIDES MEARNSI Ridgway

MEARNS’S GILDED FLICKER

PLATE 39

HABITS

Mearns’s gilded flicker is the best known of the three races of this handsome species. Its range is along our southwestern border in southwestern Arizona, extreme southeastern California, and in Sonora, Mexico. It is confined almost entirely, especially in the breeding season, to the giant cactus region in this area; its distribution seems to be mainly governed by the distribution of this cactus, on which it seems to depend for most of the necessities of life. M. French Gilman (1915) puts it very well, as follows: “The giant cactus is to this Flicker and the Gila Woodpecker, what the bamboo is to the inhabitants of some of the eastern islands. * * * The cactus furnishes the birds with home, shelter, food and possibly drink. They roost in the holes and seek them as retreat from rain storms.” But he says that this flicker is also “found in cottonwood and willow groves as well as wherever the giant cactus grows.”

W. E. D. Scott (1886) writes: “A rather common resident where-ever the giant cactus occurs throughout the region, but is much more common in the giant cactus of the southern part of the area under consideration [southern Arizona] than to the northward. They are common all about Tucson in such localities as I have indicated, but are more rare in the San Pedro Valley. I have met with the species in early spring and fall on the San Pedro slope of the Catalinas as high up as 3,000 feet. I have now and then seen single individuals in the mesquite timber, far from any giant cactus. All that I have ever met with breeding have been in giant cactus.”

_Nesting._--We spent three days, May 21, 22, and 23, 1922, collecting on the giant-cactus plains near Tucson, Ariz., between the mesquite forest to the southward and the Catalina Mountains to the eastward from Tucson. Here we found Mearns’s gilded flicker very common; we climbed to and examined seven nests and probably passed by a number of others. The nests were all in the giant cactus, at heights ranging from 12 to 20 feet from the ground; the only cavity measured was about 24 inches deep. We were rather too late for eggs of this species, as many of the nests held large young, two in each nest examined, never more nor fewer. On May 22 we found a nest containing two fresh eggs and another nest with four addled eggs, probably deserted. At one of the first nests that I examined I was surprised, when I inserted my hand, to feel something cold and clammy; my hand was quickly withdrawn and the hole was chopped out, revealing a large gopher snake that had killed and half swallowed, head first, one of the large young. At another nest, containing two large young, I shot the adult male for a specimen, after which I found the female dead in a nearby hole, which necessitated taking the two young also. After I had left for home, my companion, Frank C. Willard, took a set of three fresh eggs on June 11, from a nest 14 feet up in a small giant cactus; this was probably a second laying.

Mr. Gilman (1915), who has had considerable experience with this species, writes:

The nests are found in giant cactus, cottonwood and willow,
and in that order as to frequency, the giant cactus
leading. Nests are in the giant cactus or Saguaro as it
is called, far from water, and in cottonwood and willow
along the river, on banks of the canals, or even standing
in stagnant water pools. Of twenty-seven nests examined,
containing eggs or young, twenty-one were in the Saguaro,
four in willow, and two in cottonwood. Others were seen
in cottonwood but too difficult of access, and many in
the cactus were out of reach. If careful count were made
I believe about ninety per cent would be found in the
cactus. Nests in cottonwood and willow ranged from five
to twenty-five feet from the ground, and in Saguaros from
eleven to twenty-five or thirty feet. * * *

The entrance to the nest holes varies much, as may be seen
from the figures given. The smallest entrance measured 2¾
inches and the largest 4¾ inches. The shallowest hole was
ten inches, and the deepest eighteen inches. * * * The
entrance to the eighteen inch hole was three and one-half
inches in diameter, and while the ratio is not constant,
the shallower holes tend to have smaller entrances, and
the deeper holes have larger entrances. * * * From the few
measurements taken it may be stated that the bottom of
the nest hole is from four and one-half to six inches in
diameter. It is hardly correct to use the term diameter, as
many of the hole bottoms were not nearly circular, one I
measured being four inches one way and six the other. This
variation seemed to be governed by the size of the cactus,
as in the smaller plants there was not room to excavate a
large circular bottom, and it had to be stretched one way.

In the lower Colorado Valley, Dr. Joseph Grinnell (1914) found that “at least two pairs were nesting in dead cottonwood stumps in the drowned-out area of the river bottom. A nesting hole located here was eighteen feet above the ground, in a large stub.” He also mentions the following nests found in the saguaro belt: “On the Arizona side, April 22, excavation sixteen and one-half feet above ground in cactus thirty-one feet high, contained two fresh eggs; April 24, excavation twenty feet above the ground, not investigated. On the California side, April 23, excavation ten and one-third feet above the ground, in cactus twenty-eight feet high, contained one infertile egg and two small young.”

Major Bendire (1895) writes:

It nests at varying distances from the ground from 8 to 40
feet, generally at heights of about 15 feet. I have the
indurated form of a nesting cavity of this species now
before me, showing its exact shape. The hardened walls
are about one-fourth of an inch thick, and show the inner
contour of the cavity perfectly. The entrance is nearly 3
inches in diameter; inside it is about 7 by 4 inches wide
and 5½ inches deep. The sides and bottom of the cavity
are quite smooth, considering the nature of the substance
(the soft inner pulp of the cactus) out of which it is
excavated. It occupied only one-half of the trunk of one
of these giant cacti, and the rear of the cavity did not
quite reach the center of the plant. The eggs lay on the
hardened floor, and not, as usual, on a layer of chips. I
am inclined to believe that a freshly excavated nesting
site is not habitable for some weeks, as it must require
some time for the exuding sap to harden. The mold before me
somewhat resembles a wasp’s nest, both in color and shape,
and if suspended from the limb of a tree might easily be
mistaken for one.

_Eggs._--As to the number of eggs laid by the gilded flicker, Mr. Gilman (1915) writes: “Of the twenty-seven nests examined, eight had five eggs, or young plus eggs, to make count of five for the set; eleven had four eggs or young, or young plus eggs; six nests contained three eggs or three young; and two nests had two young each. In no case did I find five young in a nest, and from the fact that infertile eggs were found with three and four young in a nest, it may be inferred that in many of the nests containing two, three or four young, more eggs had been laid. In no nest did I find more than five eggs, and I conclude that the set is from three to five eggs.”

The gilded flicker evidently lays fewer eggs than its northern and eastern relatives, and the surprising thing is that there are so many cases of infertile eggs, often one and sometimes two in a set. I have had sets of six and seven eggs reported in collections, but these may have been products of two females, where nesting holes were scarce or the region overcrowded by the many birds that use these holes. The few eggs that I have seen are like other flickers’ eggs but either dull white or only slightly glossy; this may not be the universal rule, however. The measurements of 50 eggs average 27.86 by 21.34 millimeters; the eggs showing the four extremes measure =32.0= by 22.0, 27.78 by =22.22=, and =24.61= by =20.04= millimeters.

_Plumages._--Mr. Gilman (1915) says: “The young when first hatched are not very prepossessing to any one, except perhaps the parents. At first glance they remind one of the pictured restoration of the Plesiosaurus, with their long twisting naked necks. The lower mandible was more than an eighth of an inch longer than the upper, and on the tip of each was the hard white growth used in opening the shell.”

In the juvenal plumage, which is acquired before the young bird leaves the nest, the young male is similar to the adult male, but the forehead is usually tinged with dark red; the red malar patch is duller and less uniform; the upper parts are grayer, less brownish, and more heavily barred; the primaries are tipped with brownish white; the under parts are grayish white, more profusely, but less distinctly, spotted; the black patch on the breast is smaller and more central; the yellow in the wings and tail is duller; the black tips on the under side of the tail are duller and not so well defined; and the bill is much smaller and weaker. The young female is similar to the young male, but there is no red in the crown or in the malar patches, the latter being pale brown.

I have not seen enough material, taken at the proper seasons, to work out the molts, but these are probably the same as in other flickers.

Several apparent hybrids with _cafer_ have been reported. Dr. Grinnell (1914), who has made a study of this subject, seems to doubt if there is any hybridizing between these species; he writes:

The salient fact shown by this comparative examination
is that in _all other characters_ the specimens aberrant
in colors of wing and tail, are perfectly typical of
_chrysoides_ (that is, of its subspecies _mearnsi_). None
of the phenomena consequent upon hybridization is evidenced
in other particulars, such as general size, proportional
dimensions, extent of dorsal barring, colors of body and
head. In all these characters there is no nearer approach
of the red-shafted _chrysoides_ to _collaris_, than of the
yellow-shafted _chrysoides_.

My conclusion is that the strain of _chrysoides_ occurring
at the present time in the lower Colorado Valley shows
proneness to replacement of yellow by red, without there
having been any interbreeding with another species. This
may be accounted for chemico-physiologically, as in the
case of the linnet of the Hawaiian Islands, where, however,
the change has been from red to yellow.

* * * It is quite evident that the aberrant examples
described by Brewster and Swarth from central Arizona, as
referred to above, are of the same nature as the Colorado
Valley specimens. The chances are that they were not
hybrids. So far as shown by the literature at hand, no
unquestioned hybrids have been found between _chrysoides_
(or any of its subspecies) and _collaris_ or _cafer_.

_Food._--The food of Mearns’s gilded flicker seems to be much like that of the other flickers, including ants and various other insects and such wild fruits and berries as are available in its territory. Dr. Grinnell (1914) reports that the stomachs of two birds, taken in the Colorado Valley, “had their gullets distended with a mass of small black ants and ant larvae.” Mr. Gilman (1915) says:

They resort regularly to the Indian corncribs and are seen
in corn fields though I have never noticed them actually
engaged on an ear of green corn as I have the Gilas. They
probably attack the green corn but are quiet about the work
instead of advertising their presence. They eat largely of
the cactus fruit and possibly of the pulp at certain lean
seasons. They are very fond of watermelon, and eat freely
of it when it is placed on bird tables or on the ground
in shade of tree or shed. They appear to feed frequently
on the ground in the way the red-shafted does, and are
probably after ants most of the time. I have seen them at
work on an ant hill and even pecking into the ground after
the insects.

_Behavior._--The same writer says on this subject:

The Gilded Flickers are much quieter than the Gilas, and
are not so much in evidence around homes, though they do
not appear to be very timid. They are simply less sociable
I presume. * * *

They are peaceable and impress me as being eminently
practical and matter of fact. Each one minds his own
business and seems willing to live and let live. They do
not assemble in numbers as the Gilas do sometimes, but are
solitary or in pairs. They have the same habit of pecking
the walls of buildings as have the red-shafted flickers,
and one has worked spasmodically at the shingled gable of
the school house here for the past three years. I take it
to be the same individual, for he is rather tame and roosts
each night above one of the window casings. * * *

They are not close sitters, and usually leave the nest
before the tree is reached or the ladder placed against the
trunk. As soon as an intruder’s footsteps become audible
the landlady pokes her head from the entrance, and soon
after departs, never giving opportunity for capturing her
on the nest.

_Voice._--The gilded flicker apparently possesses as good a vocabulary as any other flicker, uttering practically all the varied notes common to the genus, but evidently it is not quite so noisy as its relatives. Mr. Gilman (1915) thinks that its notes are “not so frequent nor quite so loud” as those of the red-shafted flicker.

_Field marks._--The gilded flicker can be recognized easily as a flicker by the characteristic markings of the genus, by its flight and by its voice. It looks like an eastern flicker with a red malar patch (in the male) instead of a black one, and with no red crescent on the nape in either sex. It looks like a pale red-shafted flicker with yellow, instead of red, in the wings and tail. Its smaller size is hardly noticeable in the field.

COLAPTES CHRYSOIDES BRUNNESCENS Anthony

SAN FERNANDO FLICKER

HABITS

The gilded flicker of middle Baja California, between latitude 28° and latitude 30° N., is a well-marked subspecies. A. W. Anthony (1895b), naming it, characterized it as “differing from _C. chrysoides_ in darker upper parts and slightly smaller size.” He says further: “It would be quite natural to expect specimens of _Colaptes_ from the northern half of Lower California to be more or less intermediate between those of Arizona and Cape St. Lucas. They are, however, further removed from the type form from the Cape than are those from Arizona and northern Mexico, and in the series I have examined the Arizona skins are exactly intermediate in the color of the upper parts between a series from Cape St. Lucas and my skins from San Fernando.”

Ridgway (1914) describes _brunnescens_ as “similar to _C. c. chrysoides_, but coloration decidedly darker and browner, color of pileum more rufescent (russet, or between russet and mars brown, in typical specimens), immaculate area of rump more restricted (sometimes whole rump spotted with black), wing and tail averaging shorter, and bill longer.”

Mr. Anthony wrote to Major Bendire (1895): “The Gilded Flicker is rather common in the heavy growth of giant cactus, _Cereus pringlei_, but not adverse to the candlewood forests which cover a large part of the peninsula between latitudes 28° and 30°.” The general habits of this flicker do not seem to differ from those of the species elsewhere.

The eggs of the San Fernando flicker are similar to those of the preceeding subspecies. Griffing Bancroft (1930) gives the average measurements of 24 eggs as 27.1 by 21.3 millimeters. I have the measurements of 5 others, which average 28.9 by 22.1 millimeters.

COLAPTES CAFER RUFIPILEUS Ridgway

GUADALUPE FLICKER

HABITS

This insular race of the red-shafted flickers is another member of the unique avifauna of that interesting island that has followed the Guadalupe caracara, and other species peculiar to Guadalupe Island, into extinction. It was discovered by Dr. Edward Palmer in 1875 and was described and named by Robert Ridgway (1876) as _Colaptes mexicanus rufipileus_. In his description of it, he remarks: “In the closed tail, only about half an inch of red is exposed on the under surface beyond the lower coverts, the remaining 2.50 being uniform black. The main differences from the continental form consist in the longer bill, more pinkish rump, and bright tawny forehead. In the latter feature, the resemblance is closer to _C. chrysoides_, the crown and nape having about the same gradation from bright cinnamon-tawny anteriorly to dull grayish-cinnamon posteriorly.” Although it has a decidedly longer bill than the mainland forms, it has a much shorter wing and tail. The collector’s notes state that, even then, it was “rare, and apparently only found in the pine-woods of the north end of the island.”

Walter E. Bryant (1887), who visited Guadalupe in 1885 and 1886, gives us the best account we have of this little-known bird. He says of its status and haunts at that time: “Comparatively speaking, this bird was not rare in the restricted area of the large cypress grove, but apart from this locality less than a dozen were seen. Three specimens were taken among some palms within a short distance from the beach on the eastern side of the island. One only was heard among the pines at the northern portion, and in the vicinity of the large palm grove on the northwestern slope they were occasionally seen.” He collected ten specimens, whereas Dr. Palmer took only three.

In the spring of 1906, W. W. Brown, Jr., with two assistants, collected for two months on the island for the Thayer Museum, of which Thayer and Bangs (1908) say: “This well-marked island form is in all probability doomed to speedy extinction, and will be the next of the Guadalupe birds to go. Brown and Marsden found in all not more than forty individuals in the island. In the small cypress grove near the cabins there were four and in the large cypress woods about thirty-five.

“Mr. Brown tells us that in the breeding season, at least, the species is wholly confined to the cypresses, none being seen in the pine woods. The bird is very tame and unsuspicious and falls an easy prey to the cats.”

_Courtship._--Mr. Bryant (1887) noted Guadalupe flickers in courtship antics in January and in February. According to his description of their actions and their notes at such times, these performances are evidently similar to those of other flickers elsewhere.

_Nesting._--Apparently Dr. Palmer found no nests and collected no eggs of this flicker, but Mr. Bryant (1887) has this to say about its nesting habits:

By March 16, the birds were invariably found in pairs,
and my wish to secure a setting of eggs before departing
seemed in a fair way of being fulfilled. Strolling among
the cypresses on the 27th of March, I found four trees upon
which the birds were at work or had been recently, and in
such cases the birds themselves were always to be found in
the immediate vicinity. Passing a half-dead tree I heard
the sounding taps of a woodpecker at work, and as I neared
the spot, the slight noise which I made as I carefully
picked my way over the rock-strewn ground caused a handsome
male bird to suddenly appear at an opening about four feet
high. With a foot grasping either side of the entrance he
gazed upon the intruder. Having comprehended the situation,
he flew to another tree, where he quietly awaited my
inspection and departure. The hole was then down about
fifteen inches. By April 7, it had reached a depth of about
twenty inches and contained six fresh eggs, upon which the
female was then sitting.

Mr. Brown collected, for the Thayer Museum, six sets of eggs, one set of five, two sets of four, one set of three, and two single eggs, all of which are now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Mass. The eggs were collected on dates ranging from May 8 to June 8, 1906; the nests were all in cypresses, mostly old or dead trees or stumps, at heights ranging from 4 to 20 feet above the ground, and at altitudes of from 3,700 to 4,500 feet above sea level; one of the cavities was only 2 inches deep, but some of the others were 18 or 20 inches deep and from 3½ to 4 inches in diameter.

_Eggs._--The number of eggs laid by the Guadalupe flicker apparently ranged from four to six. The eggs that I have seen, in Cambridge, are ovate, pure white, and decidedly glossy, like other flickers’ eggs. The measurements of 23 eggs average 27.8 by 21.7 millimeters; the eggs showing the four extremes measure =30.2= by 21.1, 28.0 by =22.5=, and =26.8= by =20.5= millimeters.

_Food._--Mr. Bryant (1887) says: “The food of this species during a portion of the year consists largely of smooth-skinned caterpillars, besides numerous beetles and ants; the latter are always obtainable and growing to a large size figure as an important item of their diet.”

_Behavior._--He also remarks: “Of all the species of this family I have ever met with, none have been so tame and unsuspicious or less frightened by the report of a gun.”

_Voice._--The notes of the Guadalupe flicker are also similar to those of the mainland forms, for Mr. Bryant (1887) says: “In addition to the familiar scythe-whetting notes they have the peculiar ‘wake-up’ call and its rapid prelude of monosyllables. By imitating this call I decoyed a distant female to within short range, the bird coming through the thickest of the cypress grove, stopping at short intervals to call and listen for a reply.”

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