. American ornithology, for home and school . Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 37 m. Photo by S. P. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. bwwwiii mi iiwmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmm 38 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. much like the Crow. With his strong beak he will dig into potato hills, takeout young potatoes and carry them away in such quantities that his ravagesin some localities, near woodlands, become very annoying to farmers andgardeners, and his visits are looked upon here with about the same suspicionthat those of the Crow are by the farmers of New England. But with all his predatory habit


. American ornithology, for home and school . Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 37 m. Photo by S. P. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. bwwwiii mi iiwmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmm 38 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. much like the Crow. With his strong beak he will dig into potato hills, takeout young potatoes and carry them away in such quantities that his ravagesin some localities, near woodlands, become very annoying to farmers andgardeners, and his visits are looked upon here with about the same suspicionthat those of the Crow are by the farmers of New England. But with all his predatory habits he is a very strong, erect, stately andbeautiful bird, one that the naturalist never tires of observing. YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, A. O. V. >o. 402. (Sphyrapicus varius). Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are one of our most beautiful males have a red crown, red throat, and black breast patch; adult fe-males have the red crown but the throat is white; young birds have the headand breast mottled with gray and blackish, the males often showing some redfeathers in the crown. Young b


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