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Pictures of Bird Life 



VuuNG Clxkoo fed bv Heuge-sfarrow. 



a liole for its nest, it has to fall back upon some natural 

 hollow in which to deposit its white eggs. 



The Green AVoodpecker is the largest representative of a 

 class of birds extraordinarily well fitted in e^ery detail for 

 tlie life they are destined to lead. The}' are, in fact, very 

 higlily s^iecialised, even among birds, wliich show ])eculiar 

 proofs of adaptability to all sorts and conditions of life. 



There is not a condition in the life of Nature's beings 

 that some bird cannot adapt itself to, even to Ijurrowing 

 holes under the earth, and, more wonderful still, to boring 

 tunnels in the hard and solid wood of large trees in which 

 the sitting female can incubate her eggs free from danger 

 and molestation. In almost e^ery case of birds nesting in 

 holes two facts are \'ery apparent. One is, that the eggs 

 are almost invariably white, or white inconspicuously spotted 



