A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . pporting themselves by amomentary motion of their wings opposite a bunch, as if selecting theripest, when they would seize it and return to a branch, repeating theirvisits in this manner, until satiated. They now and then descend to theground, to pick up a wood-
A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . pporting themselves by amomentary motion of their wings opposite a bunch, as if selecting theripest, when they would seize it and return to a branch, repeating theirvisits in this manner, until satiated. They now and then descend to theground, to pick up a wood-snail or a beetle. They are extremely awkwardat walking, and move in an ambling manner, or leap along sidewise, forwhich the shortness of their legs is an ample excuse. They are seldomseen perched conspicuously on a twig, but on the contrary are generally tobe found amongst the thickest boughs and foliage, where they emit theirnotes until late in autumn, at which time they discontinue them. It is shyand cowardly, robbing small birds of their eggs. Woodpeckers.—The Red-headed Woodpecker is universally known fromhis striking and characteristic plumage, and the frequency of his depre-dations in the orchards and corn-fields. Towards the mountains, particu-larly in the vicinity of creeks and rivers, these birds are extremely abun-. Red-headed Woodpecker. dant, especially in the latter part of the summer. Wherever you travelin the interior at that season, you hear them screaming from the adjoiningwoods, rattling on the dead limbs of trees, or on the fences, where they areperpetually seen flitting from stake to stake on the roadside before there are trees of the wild cherry, covered with ripe fruit, thereyou see them busy among the branches ; and in passing orchards, you mayeasily know where to find the sweetest apples, by observing those trees on 2Q8 BOOK OF THE UNITED STATES. or neaT which this bird is skulking; for he is so excellent a connoisseur infruit, that where
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