. The birds of Maine; with key to and description of the various species known to occur or to have occured in the state, an account of their distribution and migration, showing their relative abundance in the various counties of the state as well as other regions, and contributions to their life histories . acking but otherwise similar. Wing to ;culmen Geog. Dist.—Northern and eastern America, south to South Carolina andwest to the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains and Alaska in the breedingseason; wintering from Massachusetts southward. County Records.—Androscoggin; abundant
. The birds of Maine; with key to and description of the various species known to occur or to have occured in the state, an account of their distribution and migration, showing their relative abundance in the various counties of the state as well as other regions, and contributions to their life histories . acking but otherwise similar. Wing to ;culmen Geog. Dist.—Northern and eastern America, south to South Carolina andwest to the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains and Alaska in the breedingseason; wintering from Massachusetts southward. County Records.—Androscoggin; abundant summer resident, (Johnson).Aroostook; common summer resident, (Knight). Cumberland; commonsummer resident, (Mead); a Flicker has been living in Portland all winter,(Brownson, J. M. 0. S., 1907, p. 17). Franklin ; common summer resident,(Swain). Hancock; common summer resident, (Murch); common on thewooded islands of the coast, (Knight). Kennebec; quite common summerresident, (Gardiner Branch). Knox; summer resident, (Rackliff). Oxford;common, breeds, (Nash). Penobscot; breeds commonly, and is the mostcommon of our Woodpeckers, (Knight). Piscataquis; common, (Homer).Sagadahoc; common summer resident, (Spinney). Somerset; common sum-mer resident, (Morrell). Waldo; common summer resident, (Knight).. NEST AND EGGS OF THE FLICKER. rroiM Thf Wailili-r. lis the kindiuss Hop. Jaliii Lewis Cliilcls WOODPECKERS 291 Washington; abundant summer resident, (Boardman). York; not common,formerly abundant, (Adams); several remained in a sheltered valley amongthe pines near Eliot through the winter of 1898, (W. L. Fernald). In the spring they occasionally arrive as early as April 6,but more usually in the neighborhood of April 20 and remainuntil late October or very exceptionally even until November20, or even winter very rarely in southwestern Maine. Thespecies is common, generally distributed and readily seen andrecognized. In the spring soon after their arrival the call kee-ah isusual
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