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but rather laboriously, owing perhaps to their great size. They 

 are probably the only members of their family in New Eng- 

 land, whom the hawks never attack. One of our common 

 woodpeckers may sometimes be seen adroitly dodging around 

 some limb, while a disappointed hawk vainly endeavors to 

 seize him. But should there be a pair of his enemies, he does 

 not always escape, unless he can take refuge in a hole. 



(cZ). The Log-cocks, besides the loud rolling sound of their 

 hammering (audible for even a mile), often produce a loud 

 cackling, not wholly unlike that of a hen. Hence, a country- 

 man, asked by a sportsman if there were woodcock in a cer- 

 tain place, answered that he often heard " them hollering in 

 the woods ! " 



