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THE LEWIS WOODPECKER. 



subject to little-understood fluctuations. One year the birds will abound 

 in a certain section, wiiile the year following none are seen. Whether 

 this is because the local food ^u])|ily lias becimie exhausted with a season's 

 foraging, or whether the birds are sini]>lv wliimsical in cliriice, we do not 



Taken in ll'hntconi County. 



FItoto by the Author. 



.\N OLD BURN SUCH AS LEWIS WOODPECKERS DELIGHT IN. 



know. Doubtless, in any event, the rapid opening uj) of new territory, thru 

 the cutting and ]>artial burning of timber, has provided a field of oppor- 

 tunilv too large for the species to fully occupy. With such wealth before 

 them the earlv colonists may naturallv have become a little saucy. 



