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Rh FIELD KEY TO THE LAND BIRDS.

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their nests in tree-trnnks, excavating holes for in a similar

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way.

30. YELLOW-HAMMER, FLICKER, GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER. Colaptits

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Length, 12 inches. Head ash gray with a auratus. red spot Avhere the neck begins back brown with black bars tail black underparts white with round black dots, and a black patch on the breast wings and tail golden yellow underneath in the males a black stripe from the corner of the mouth to the neck, wanting in the female. This is the commonest woodpecker east of the Rocky Mountains. In his habits he differs from llie other woodj^eckers, v/hich are mostly solitary wood lairds, by being very sociable, feeding often on the ground. He seems rather more at home near liabitations than in the dee]) woods, being fond of orcliards and gardens. Beside feeding on insects he eats berries, in company with robins and other birds. Like the other woodpeckers, he is always busy, but seems to enjoy life more than his brethren.









31. LOGCOCK. PILE A TED WOODPECKER. OeopJdoeus pileatus. — Length, 17 inches.

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large red crest on the top of the head throat and at the corner of the mouth a red stripe, wanting in the female the rest of the body black. Formerly common in large wooded districts, now becoming extinct in the Eastern part of the country.

sides white





33. losus.

HAIRY WOODPECKER.

— Length, 9J

inches.

back of the head a red

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spot,

Bryohates

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Black and white at the wanting in the female.

DOWNY WOODPECKER.

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Dryohates

pubescent. Length, 6| inches. In color and markings like the Hairy Woodpecker, except the outer tailfeathers, which are white on the Hairy Woodpecker, and white with blackish bars on the Downy Woodpecker. Its coat is soft and silky. Both these birds stay summer and winter, and rarely leave the woods.

33.

YELLOW-BELLIED

WOODPECKER.