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Title: British birds with their nests and eggs
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: American Museum of Natural History Library

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tapping on the bark until they discover a hollow spot into which theydig with their strong bills extracting therefrom both larvae and insects, but theWrynecks and some of the Woodpeckers live largely upon ants, which they obtainupon the ground, whilst some of the American species eat nuts, fruit, and probablyeggs. The flight of the Woodpeckers is somewhat irregular and undulating, and theirnotes are mostly harsh. If hand-reared the Picidce are perhaps the most suitable of all the EuropeanPicarice for avicultural purposes; but, as Swaysland observes:— It is alwaysadvisable to keep these birds separate from their own species, as they invariablyfight, and will even kill one another, as we can unfortunately vouch from experience.The young had better be placed in separate baskets when about a fortnight old. •*y#» W^ ^
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<5:V\(eK-oh.i.iOy Wryneck i TnK Wryneck. 17 Faviily—PICID/E. Subfamily-1 YNfUN/fi. Thk Wryxkck. lynx /orf/nil/a, Lixx. BREEDS througliout the greater part of Europe, though sparingly in theextreme south, where, however, a few appear to winter ; northward it occursin summer up to lat. 64° in Scandinavia and Western Russia, though not so far northin Eastern Russia. Its range in Asia is very extensive: it breeds in VVesteni Siberianorthwards to lat. 60 and eastwards to Kamtschatka, southwards to the AltaiMountains ; it also breeds in Japan, where it is common ; passes through North Chinaand Afghanistan on migration, winters in South China, Burma, and India; it breedsin the Himalayas and throughout Turkestan. In Africa it is believed to be residentin Algeria, passes through Egypt on migration, and is said to winter to the south ofAbyssinia. Of its distribution in the British Isles Howard Saunders sa5s:— It is aregular spring-visitor to England, sometimes arriving in the south bj t

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