Colaptes auratus. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1894. Flickers very numerous along the road from Errol to Dix- Sept. I9. ville Notch. They seemed to be migrants just in from the north. I counted twelve in one flock. They were all in fields and openings along the road. As they rose and flew off towards the woods their white rumps were singularly conspicu- ous against the dark spruces. Often the white alone could be seen rising and falling in gentle undulations. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Roosting in a hole. 1897. Soon after we had settled down behind the log (at Whale's Sept.7. Back Creek) a Flicker flew to a stub on the opposite side of the creek and entered a hole which looked black and worn like and old nesting hole. It had evidently gone there to spend the night for it did not come out again. I did not know be- fore that Flickers roosted in holes at this season. Lake Umbagog. 1898. (On the way up Cambridge River) Two Flickers were "shout- Sept.11. ing" almost as freely and frequently as if it were May in- stead of September and both were in the depths of the woods far up from the settlements. These were actually the only Woodpeckers noted. Sept.26. At Upton Melvin saw a remarkable number of Flickers (400 or 500 he says) scattered everywhere in the fields and woods.