. The birds of New England and adjacent states : ... arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs . Skull and tongue of Hairy Woodpecker, Picus villosus. Linnaeus. THE DOWNY WOODPECKER. 89 strikes its object with both feet, and makes no discrimina-tion between a horizontal branch or limb and a perpendicularone. It commences its building operations quite earl}7, oftenby the 20th of April. The nest is made by excavating inold trees in the woods, rarely in orchards: the hole m
. The birds of New England and adjacent states : ... arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs . Skull and tongue of Hairy Woodpecker, Picus villosus. Linnaeus. THE DOWNY WOODPECKER. 89 strikes its object with both feet, and makes no discrimina-tion between a horizontal branch or limb and a perpendicularone. It commences its building operations quite earl}7, oftenby the 20th of April. The nest is made by excavating inold trees in the woods, rarely in orchards: the hole made isoften as much as eighteen inches in depth, in some caseshardly five inches. A post in a fence is sometimes takenfor a breeding-place, the hole in which the rail is insertedfurnishing a starting-place for the excavation of the nest. The eggs are usually five in number; seldom more, oftenless: they are of a beautiful clear-white color, and the shellis very smooth and rather thin ; and, before the contents ofthe egg are removed, they impart a rosy tint to it. Speci-mens vary in size from .77 to .84 inch in length, by from62 to .68 inch in breadth. The nest is never lined with leaves or other soft materials,so far as my observation
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