. Bird-lore . writer has been familiar with this bird in northeastern Ohio for morethan a dozen years, and here he has held his own, despite the growth in popula-tion and rapid deforestation that have taken place in that length of time. To study the Log-cock in his haunts is a memorable experience, which wordsfail to describe. It kindles enthusiasm to the superlative degree. Search the bird-books if you would gain an idea of his outward appearance,but it is of his very spirit that we would give a glimpse. An animus of wild,dashing joy, full of nervous, tireless, almost impatient industry; utte
. Bird-lore . writer has been familiar with this bird in northeastern Ohio for morethan a dozen years, and here he has held his own, despite the growth in popula-tion and rapid deforestation that have taken place in that length of time. To study the Log-cock in his haunts is a memorable experience, which wordsfail to describe. It kindles enthusiasm to the superlative degree. Search the bird-books if you would gain an idea of his outward appearance,but it is of his very spirit that we would give a glimpse. An animus of wild,dashing joy, full of nervous, tireless, almost impatient industry; utter aloofnessfrom all man-made things; loud, ringing, derisive laughter; vigorous, straight-away flight, bearing that chis^l-beak firmly set on his short-necked powerful head,—thus with his brief, flowing crest he suggests the Kingfisher, as he dashes acrossalternate patches of light and shade with cackling laughter. Everv movementsuggests a personality of unusual vim and poise and indei)endent jiower. He (57). SUG.\R MAPLE. ;\VATIOXS MADE BY THEATED WOODPECKER. Ellsworth THEPILE-Ohio. 58 Bird-Lore does nothing by halves; his industry is intense. When he smites his chosensounding-board, the woods reverberate with the wooden music. When hewinghis way to a meal in the heart of a tree, the wintry silence is filled with the clatterof his workshop, and the chips fl}-. Think of him, almost as big as a Crow, some eighteen inches long by twenty-eight inches in expanse, sooty black, with white stripes flowing from cheeks downneck and out into his wings, the royal head in its scarlet cap, and the male withscarlet mustaches to match, and that unutterably savage orange eyel
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