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 Note that a woodpecker has made a hole near the top.

forests are the ants. Attention is at once attracted to the leaf-cutters which toil ceaselessly through the night and during most of the day, only intermitting their labors during the hottest part of the afternoon. These ants make big mounds, sometimes twenty feet in diameter, with numerous entrances. The underground galleries' are continually extended and modified for there is an excavating party at each mound which carries little particles to a particular spot at some distance from the