. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . re is found in the deepest woodsand swamps, far away from human habitations. The PileatedWoodpecker is a species nearly as large as the one just men-tioned and has similar habits, though it is more generallydistributed over the United States. Both are rare birds,inhabiting solitary forests; on account of their shyness, they LSI 182 BIRDS IN THEIK RELATIONS TO MAN. are not likely ever to have much economic importance incivilized communities. Analyses of the stomach contentsof the pileated spec
. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . re is found in the deepest woodsand swamps, far away from human habitations. The PileatedWoodpecker is a species nearly as large as the one just men-tioned and has similar habits, though it is more generallydistributed over the United States. Both are rare birds,inhabiting solitary forests; on account of their shyness, they LSI 182 BIRDS IN THEIK RELATIONS TO MAN. are not likely ever to have much economic importance incivilized communities. Analyses of the stomach contentsof the pileated species have shown that, it feeds largely onants, beetles, and other insects which it finds in dead treesand logs, the beetle larvae that bore into the trunks of treesbeing especially taken. It also feeds upon the seeds andberries of many sorts of wild fruits, such as the sour-gnui,flowering dogwood, black haw, hackberry, persimmon, wildgrapes, Virginia creeper, greenbrier, sumac, and the stomachs analyzed by the Biological Survey the animaland vegetable matter was about equally ^^f^^^ THE HAIRY A/I r Biological Survey.) Either the typical form or that of some variety of theHairy Woodpecker occurs commonly in most parts of NorthAmerica. This is a particularly useful bird, visiting freely thekings of the forest, as well as the fruit-trees of the orchardand the shade and ornamental trees of the home grounds,the park, or the public thoroughfare. It nests in holes in THE WOODPECKERS, KINGFISHERS, AND CUCKOOS. 183 trees, usually in the forest, and rears from four to six birds search more persistently for the wood-boring grubsliving beneath the bark of trees, many of which—like theflat-headed borer—are the most vexatious enemies of thefruit-grower. During their meanderings over the trunk andlarger limbs they often startle moths and other nocturnalinsects, which they devour whenever opportunity offers, andthey also penetrate the disguise o
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