. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . -tionally abundant in the fall, but their white wing-patch-es, which show so conspicuously when they fly, and theirloud, rolling call of Icer-r-mok,, her-r-ruck, are unmistak-able marks of identity. The most interesting of our Woodpeckers is theFlicker, or High-hole, whose popularity is attested by nicker ^^^ ■^®* °^ ^° -^^^^ ^2,tl thirty odd com- Colaptes auratus. mon uames. Surely here is an instance Plate XXVI. illustrating the necessity of one sci-entific term by which the Piquebois jaune of Louisi-ana may be recognized as the Clape o
. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . -tionally abundant in the fall, but their white wing-patch-es, which show so conspicuously when they fly, and theirloud, rolling call of Icer-r-mok,, her-r-ruck, are unmistak-able marks of identity. The most interesting of our Woodpeckers is theFlicker, or High-hole, whose popularity is attested by nicker ^^^ ■^®* °^ ^° -^^^^ ^2,tl thirty odd com- Colaptes auratus. mon uames. Surely here is an instance Plate XXVI. illustrating the necessity of one sci-entific term by which the Piquebois jaune of Louisi-ana may be recognized as the Clape of New is also a Yucker, a Flicker, and a Yellow-ham-mer ; all these names being based on his notes or plu-mage. The Flicker is less of a carpenter than are others ofhis family, and generally selects decayed logs and stumpsas his hunting grounds. Here he hunts for his favoritefood of ants, which he also procures at their holes andmounds. This is the reason we so often flush the Flickerfrom the ground, and, if we mark the spot from which he. Plate XLI. Page J 38. SONG SPAKROW. Length, 6-25 inches. Upper parts chestnut, gray, and black; under parts white, streaked with chestnut and black ; outer tail-feathers shortest. aOATSUCKERS. 117 rises, the probabilities are that we shall find there a much-disturbed community of ants. Professor Beal has shown that nearly one lialf of theFlickers food consists of ants. He further tells us thatas ants aid in the increase of the plant lice so injuriousto vegetation, the birds which feed on ants are thereforethe friends of the agriculturist. The Flickers most prominent marks, as with a lowchuckle he bounds up before you, are his white ramppatch and his wings, which show yellow in flight. Hisnotes are equally characteristic. The most common is aloud, vigorous Icee-yer, apparently a signal or salute. Inthe spring, and occasionally in the fall, he utters a pleas-ing, rather dreamy cuh-cuh-cuh-cuh, many times two or more b
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