Colaptes auratus luteus. Sept. 26 Lake Umbagog - James C. Melvin, who is engaged in hunting for Woodcock to-day in the comes about Balside and on the heights of land near the Post Office in Upton saw at least at least 400 or 500 Flickers. He found them everywhere - in the woods as well as fields - but most commonly in pastures and open openings. They occurred singly and in flocks of from two or three to ten or a dozen birds each. They appeared to be chiefly engaged in feeding on the ground. He saw none making up twelve flights but flushed most of them from the ground. On the 28th when he went over the same grounds he saw in all only about half a dozen birds. It is evident, therefore, that the birds went with on the 26th almost two hundred or southward the following night. Immense flights