. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 418 THE RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. chorr, has often reminded me of the bark of a lap-dog. It is a Piost expert climber, possessing extraordiarny strength in the muscles of its feet and claws, and moves about the body and limbs of trees with great facility. It rattles likes the others of its tribe on dead limbs, and with such violence as to be heai'd in clear weather more than a half mile off. Like others, it digs out for itself a nesting-place in the limb of a tree, producing two broods in a
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 418 THE RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. chorr, has often reminded me of the bark of a lap-dog. It is a Piost expert climber, possessing extraordiarny strength in the muscles of its feet and claws, and moves about the body and limbs of trees with great facility. It rattles likes the others of its tribe on dead limbs, and with such violence as to be heai'd in clear weather more than a half mile off. Like others, it digs out for itself a nesting-place in the limb of a tree, producing two broods in a season. This species inhabits a large range of country ; in all portions it seems to be resident, or nearly so. The benefits derived from such busy workers after pest insects, that lie lurking beneath the barks of trees in our forests, must be incalculable. The Red-cockaded Woodpecker {Picns quernlus). Wilson first discovered this bii'd, in the woods of North (.'arolina. The singularity of its voice, which qixite resembles that of young nestlings, and the red streak on the side of its head, suggested the specific name he gave it. He found it also in South C'arolina and Georgia. It is thought to be an intermediate form between the Ked-bellied and Hairy ^Voodpecker. The distinguishing character is the fine line of vermilion on each side of the head. The California Woodpecker {Melanerpes formicivorus) is especially a Pacific coast bird, extending to Northern Mexico. Dr. Heerman describes this as one of the noisiest as well as the most abundant species in California. It catches insects on the wing, after the manner of the Fly-catchers. This bird is noted for its habit of storing acorns in dead trees, by pecking holes for each nut, and forcing them into them. America possesses many species, among which the Red-headed Woodpecker deserves a short notice, as being a good representative of the Black Woodpeckers. It is one of the commonest of American birds, bold, fearless of man, and e
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