. The book of birds; common birds of town and country and American game birds . our woodpeckers. Its range seems to be de-termined by that of the oaks upon which itlives and from which it draws a large part ofits subsistence. In California the bird is knownto many by the Si>anish name, carf^iiitcro, orcarpenter, and its shop is the oak, in the deadlimbs of which, as in the bark of pines, itbores innumerable holes, each just large enoughto receive an acorn. That the birds do not re-gard the filling of these storehouses as work,but, on the contrary, take great i)leasure in it,is evident from
. The book of birds; common birds of town and country and American game birds . our woodpeckers. Its range seems to be de-termined by that of the oaks upon which itlives and from which it draws a large part ofits subsistence. In California the bird is knownto many by the Si>anish name, carf^iiitcro, orcarpenter, and its shop is the oak, in the deadlimbs of which, as in the bark of pines, itbores innumerable holes, each just large enoughto receive an acorn. That the birds do not re-gard the filling of these storehouses as work,but, on the contrary, take great i)leasure in it,is evident from their joyous outcries and fn^mthe manner they chase each other in their trii^sfrom free to tree like boys at tag. In Cali-fornia many of the country school-houses areunoccui>ied during the summer and the wood-peckers do serious damage by drilling holes inthe window casings and elsewhere with a viewto using them as storage places. As long asthe acorn crop lasts, so long does the storingwork go on. Meanwhile the jays and squirrelsslip in and rob the woodpeckers larder. .S7.
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