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 LAND—BIRDS.

ORDER PICI: WOODPECKERE. Family Picida: Woodpeckers. Page 196. 6 Species.

Birds of small and medium size, feeding as they creep around the branches and trunks of trees. They are of stocky, compact build, with strong, straight bills (one species has a. slightly curving bill), mottled and variegated plumage, and red markings about the head. To be distinguished from other creepers by their superior size, and the fact that they seldom, if ever, walk head downward.

ORDER COCCYGES: CDCKOOE. Painin Cuculidae: Cuckooa. Page 202. 2 Species. Medium-sized tree-birds, with softly-tinted gray and brown- ish plumage, most noticeable at the time of apple blossoms, when they feed upon the nests of the tent—caterpillar.

Painin Alcedinida: Kingﬁshers. Page 204. 1 Species.

Common birds of streams and ponds. Head crested, long bill. Lead blue plumage above, light breast banded with blue. Seen perching on stumps and dead trees over the water watching for ﬁsh.

ORDER RAPTORES: BIRDS OP PREY. Family Btﬂgida: Barn Owls. Page 206. 1 Species.

Family Bubonidae: Horned Owls. Page 207. 7 Species.

Stoutly—built birds, varying in length from eight inches to two feet, with and without feathered ear-tufts (horns), and having mottled loose plumage, feathered disks around the eyes, hooked beaks, and muscular feet. The family comprises both diurnal and nocturnal species. _

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