. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . ave obtained it. While thus employed, the silent woodsreverberate the stridulous echoes of their rapid and tremulous blows; 56 GG2 ZYGODACTYLY and at length, darting their long, viscid tongues into the burrows ofthe insects, they extract them with ease and alacrity. Their nestsare also made either in the natural or artificial excavations of thetrunks of trees. They breed once in the year, and lay from 3 to 8,usually white and spotless, eggs. Their moult is simple or onlyannual. Species of this family are found
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . ave obtained it. While thus employed, the silent woodsreverberate the stridulous echoes of their rapid and tremulous blows; 56 GG2 ZYGODACTYLY and at length, darting their long, viscid tongues into the burrows ofthe insects, they extract them with ease and alacrity. Their nestsare also made either in the natural or artificial excavations of thetrunks of trees. They breed once in the year, and lay from 3 to 8,usually white and spotless, eggs. Their moult is simple or onlyannual. Species of this family are found in almost every part of the w orld. COLAPTES. (Swains.) FLICKERS. The bill long and gently curved, wedged at the point, and withthe under mandible not carinated. Feet 4-toed.— Distantly allied tothe American Cuckoos. Two other species of this genus, inhabitSouth Africa, at the Cape of Good Hope. The American speciesprey from preference on ants, in quest of which it often descendsto the ground, as well as perforates decayed trees ; they also in win-ter live much upon berries. m. vox if /j. -T 4 m^i: *V. m ■■ ■• • 1ffll r
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