. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . They have also been creditedwith having in 1880 cleaned elm-trees in Cleveland, Ohio,of the cocoons of the tussock-moth. Concerning the l)eneficeiit habits of the hairy 1*. ]\. Hoy, a well-known naturalist, wrote many yearsago: Cheerful ;nnl iii(liislfioiis, he is always on llie h)okoiitfor tiiose worms Ihai ixirrow in Ihe siii)stance of the wood orunder the hark of lives. ! le is an experl al anscnlhiiion andpeicnssion, and he is nol indihhil h> Laeniiec for Iht- art 184 BI
. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . They have also been creditedwith having in 1880 cleaned elm-trees in Cleveland, Ohio,of the cocoons of the tussock-moth. Concerning the l)eneficeiit habits of the hairy 1*. ]\. Hoy, a well-known naturalist, wrote many yearsago: Cheerful ;nnl iii(liislfioiis, he is always on llie h)okoiitfor tiiose worms Ihai ixirrow in Ihe siii)stance of the wood orunder the hark of lives. ! le is an experl al anscnlhiiion andpeicnssion, and he is nol indihhil h> Laeniiec for Iht- art 184 BIRDS IN THEIR RELATIONS TO MAN, either. As he explores suspicious locahties with gentle taps,he quickly detects the evidences of unsoundness, and is notslow to learn the cause. Worms is his hobby : soon he chipsan opening, and with his long, slender tongue, armed with abarbed lance-point,—a capital tool,—he soon extracts thecause of the evil. While engaged in wonuing he continuesto utter his clieerful FVwk, pUck! m a major key, as if con-scious that he is engaged in a good cause and not ashamed. THE CKCROPIA MOTH AND ITS COCOOX (REOXTED). to own it. You can always tell where he is. A few earsof corn is about all the pay he takes for his valuable him ; he is our friend. In habits, manner, and dress the Downy Woodpecker seemsbut a miniature copy of its liairy cousin. It more com-monly frequents orchards and is often called the sapsucker,but this is a misnomc^r, as fliat nanu^ should ])e confined tollic y(ll()w-b(lli(Ml species. Alllioiigh il boics liolcs in tlie THE WOODPECKERS, KINGFISHERS, AND CUCKOOS. 185 bark of apple-trees, it does not revisit them to suck the sap,according to the habit of the last-named bird; and the holesseem usually not to injure the tree. Seventeen AVisconsinspecimens had eaten forty insect larvae, including twentywood-boring grubs and three caterpillars, seven ants, fourbeetles, a chrysalid, one hundred and ten small bugs, and aspider, t
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