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THE WOODPECKERS
BY
FANNIE HARDY ECKSTORM
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1901
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1901
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY FANNIE HARDY ECKSTORM
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
To
MY FATHER
MR. MANLY HARDY
A Lifelong Naturalist
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| Foreword: the Riddlers | 1 | |
| I. | How to know a Woodpecker | 4 |
| II. | How the Woodpecker catches a Grub | 9 |
| III. | How the Woodpecker courts his Mate | 15 |
| IV. | How the Woodpecker makes a House | 20 |
| V. | How a Flicker feeds her Young | 24 |
| VI. | Friend Downy | 28 |
| VII. | Persona non Grata. (Yellow-bellied Sapsucker) | 33 |
| VIII. | El Carpintero. (Californian Woodpecker) | 46 |
| IX. | A Red-headed Cousin. (Red-headed Woodpecker) | 55 |
| X. | A Study of Acquired Habits | 60 |
| XI. | The Woodpecker’s Tools: His Bill | 68 |
| XII. | The Woodpecker’s Tools: His Foot | 77 |
| XIII. | The Woodpecker’s Tools: His Tail | 86 |
| XIV. | The Woodpecker’s Tools: His Tongue | 99 |
| XV. | How each Woodpecker is fitted for his own Kind of Life | 104 |
| XVI. | The Argument from Design | 110 |
| APPENDIX | 113 | |
| A. | Key to the Woodpeckers of North America | 114 |
| B. | Descriptions of the Woodpeckers of North America | 117 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| Flicker (colored) | Frontispiece |
| Boring Larva | 10 |
| Indian Spear | 12 |
| Solomon Islander’s Spear | public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@35062@[email protected]#Page_13" |