. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . tude and security, the beauties andblessings of the rising day. The nest, early in April, is usually made in some loftybranch; and in this labor both the sexes unite to dig out a cir-cular cavity for the purpose, sometimes out of the solid wood,but more commonly into a hollow limb. The young appeartowards the close of May or early in June, climbing out uponthe higher branches of the tree, where they are fed and reareduntil able to fly, though in the mean time from their exposurethey often fall a prey to prowling Hawks. These bi
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . tude and security, the beauties andblessings of the rising day. The nest, early in April, is usually made in some loftybranch; and in this labor both the sexes unite to dig out a cir-cular cavity for the purpose, sometimes out of the solid wood,but more commonly into a hollow limb. The young appeartowards the close of May or early in June, climbing out uponthe higher branches of the tree, where they are fed and reareduntil able to fly, though in the mean time from their exposurethey often fall a prey to prowling Hawks. These birds usuallyraise but one brood in the season, and may be considered, likethe rest of their insect-devouring fraternity, as useful scaven-gers for the protection of the forest; their attacks, as might bereasonably expected, being always confined to decaying trees,which alone afford the prey for which they probe. This birds breeding area lies between Florida and Marylandand northward through the interior to Southern Ontario, where itis quite common. VOL. I. — 29. YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER. Sphyrapicus varius. Char. Above, black and white, back tinged with yellow; crown andchin scarlet, bordered by black; cheeks black, bordered by white or paleyellow; breast black ; belly pale yellow. In females the scarlet on chinis replaced by white. Length 8/4 inches. Aest. In woodland; a cavity in a dead trunk of large tree ; sometimesexcavated in a live tree. J^Si^- 4-7; white ; X This species, according to the season, extends over thewhole American continent, from the 53d degree to the tropics,where it is seen in Cayenne. With us it is most commonin summer in the Northern and Middle States, and as farnorth as Nova Scotia. At this season it is seldom seen beyondthe precincts of the forest, in which it selects the most solitaryrecesses, leaving its favorite haunts only at the approach ofwinter, and seeking, from necessity or caprice, at this rovingseason the boundaries of the orcha
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