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Title: Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York : Double Day, Page
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in the bark, or indecayed fence rails—too often a convenient storehouse at whichthe squirrels may help themselves. But it is the black snake thatenters the nest and eats the young family, and that is a moredeadly foe than even the sportsman or the milliner. The Hairy Woodpecker (Dryobates villosus) Woodpecker family Length—() to lo inches. About the size of the robin. Ma/e—B\a.ck and white above, white beneath. White stripedown the back, composed of long hair-like feathers. Bright-red band on the nape of neck. Wings striped and dashedwith black and white. Outer tail feathers white, withoutbars. White stripe about eyes and on sides of the head. Female—Without the red band on head, and body more brown-ish than that of the male. Jiange—Eastern parts of United States, from the Canadian bor-der to the Carolinas.Migrations—Resident throughout its range. The bill of the woodpecker is a hammering tool, well fittedfor its work. Its mission in life is to rid the trees of insects, 54
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DOWNY WOODPECKER.Life-size. Conspicuously Black and White which hide beneath the bark, and with this end in view, the birdis seen clinging to the trunks and branches of trees through fairand wintry weather, industriously scanning every inch for thewell-known signs of the boring worm or destructive fly. In the autumn the male begins to excavate his winter quar-ters, carrying or throwing out the chips, by which this goodworkman is known, with his beak, while the female may makeherself cosey or not, as she chooses, in an abandoned hole. Abouther comfort he seems shamefully unconcerned. Intent only onhis own, he drills a perfectly round hole, usually on the underside of a limb where neither snow nor wind can harm him, anddigs out a horizontal tunnel in the dry, brittle wood in the veryheart of the tree, before turning downward into the deep, pear-shaped chamber, where he lives in selfish solitude. But when thenesting season comes, how devoted he is temporarily to the matehe has neglected

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