INJURIOUS INSECTS OF 1904. 



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and ten small bugs, a spider, with a few acorns, small seeds and a 

 little woody fibre apparently taken by accident with the grubs! Three- 

 fourths of the food of one hundred and forty specimens examined 

 by* the Department of Agriculture consisted of insects. Nearly one- 

 foiu-th consisted of ants, chiefly from those which were caring for 

 plant lice, or burrowing in wood. 



Fig. 131. — Downy Woodj)ecker. Original. 



FLICKER, GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER, PIGEON 

 WOODPECKER, YELLOW-HAMMER, HIGH HOLE. 



Top of head ashy ; band across back of head scarlet ; back oiive 

 brown conspicuously barred with black ; rump white ; tail feathers 

 above black, with white markings tinged slightly with yellow, and 



