. Beginners zoology. Zoology. i8o BEGINNERS' ZOOLOGY Woodpeckers. — Careful observers have noticed that, excepting a single species, these birds rarely leave any conspicuous mark on a healthy tree, except when it is affected by wood-boring larvae, which are accurately located, dis- lodged, and devoured by the wood- pecker. Of the flickers' or yellow- hammers' stomachs examined, three were completely filled with ants. Two of the birds each contained more than 3,000 ants, while the third bird contained fully 5,000. These ants be- long to species which live in the ground. It is these insects for
. Beginners zoology. Zoology. i8o BEGINNERS' ZOOLOGY Woodpeckers. — Careful observers have noticed that, excepting a single species, these birds rarely leave any conspicuous mark on a healthy tree, except when it is affected by wood-boring larvae, which are accurately located, dis- lodged, and devoured by the wood- pecker. Of the flickers' or yellow- hammers' stomachs examined, three were completely filled with ants. Two of the birds each contained more than 3,000 ants, while the third bird contained fully 5,000. These ants be- long to species which live in the ground. It is these insects for which the flicker is reaching when it runs about in the grass. The yellovv-beUied woodpecker or sapsucker {Spltyrapicus varius) was shown to be guilty of pecking holes in the bark of various forest trees, and sometimes in that of apple trees, and of drinking the. Fig. 327.— Lyre Bird, male. i^s:—. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Coleman, Walter M. Toronto : Macmillan
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