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BIRDS IX THEIR RELATIONS TO MAN. 



are not likely ever to have much economic importance in 

 civilized communities. Analyses of the stomach contents 

 of the pileated species have shown that it feeds largely on 

 ants, beetles, and other insects which it finds in dead trees 

 and logs, the beetle larvie that bore into the trunks of trees 

 being especially taken. It also feeds upon the seeds and 

 berries of many sorts of wild fruits, such as the sour-gum, 

 flowering dogwood, black haw, hackberry, persimmon, wild 

 grapes, Virginia creeper, greenbrier, sumac, and poison-ivy. 

 In the stomachs analyzed by the Biological Survey the animal 

 and vegetable matter was about equally divided. 



.'III ^ '"' ^ -^^ 







THE HAIRY WOODPECKER. 



(Afhr niolnginil Survey.) 



Either the typical form or that of some variety of the 

 HAmv Woodpecker occurs counnonly in most parts of North 

 America. This is a particularly useful bird, visiting freely the 

 kings of the forest, as well as the fruit-trees of the orchard 

 and the shadc^ aud ornamental trees of the home grounds, 

 the park, or llic public thoroughfare. It nests in holes in 



