. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . bundant in the fall, but their white wing-patch-es, which show so conspicuously when they fly, and theirlou(], rolling call of Ier-i-ntel, hsr-/-/u-rJc, are unmistak-able marks of identity. The most interesting of our Woodpeckers is theFlicker, or High-liole, whose popularity is attested by Flicker ^^^® ^^®* ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ than thirty odd com- C\ihq,t,« :,ur<ituK. mon names. Surely here is an instance Plate XXVI, illustrating the neeessity of one sci-entific term by which the Piquebois jaune of Louisi-ana may be recognized as the Clape of
. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . bundant in the fall, but their white wing-patch-es, which show so conspicuously when they fly, and theirlou(], rolling call of Ier-i-ntel, hsr-/-/u-rJc, are unmistak-able marks of identity. The most interesting of our Woodpeckers is theFlicker, or High-liole, whose popularity is attested by Flicker ^^^® ^^®* ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ than thirty odd com- C\ihq,t,« :,ur<ituK. mon names. Surely here is an instance Plate XXVI, illustrating the neeessity of one sci-entific term by which the Piquebois jaune of Louisi-ana may be recognized as the Clape of New is also a Tucker, 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 huntiua: grounds. Here he limits for his favoritefood of ants, which he also procures : at their holes andmounds. This is the reason we so often flush the Fhckerfrom the ground, and, if we mark the spot from which he. Plate XLI. Page 138. SONG , 6-25 inches. Upper parts chestnut, gray, and black; underparts white, streaked with chestnut and black; outer tail-leathersshortest. GOATSUCKERS. 117 rises, the probabilities are that we shallfind there a much-disturbed eomiuunity of ants. Professor Beal has shown that nearly one half 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, ate his white rumppatch and his wings, which show yellow in flight. Hisnotes are equally characteristic. The most common is aloud, vigorous kee-yer, apparently a signal or salute. Ipthe spring, and occasionally in the fall, he utters a pleas-ing, rather dreamy cuh-cuh-cuh-cuh, many times two or more birds ar
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