310 CITIZEN BIRD 



on the outside tail-feathers. Red band on luick of head of the 

 male, but not of the female. 



Under parts all white. 



A Citizen of the eastern half of Xorth America, where he stays 

 all the year round. 



A good and useful neighbor — one of the best. Does not bore 

 holes in trees to injure them or eat the sap, but to get at the hurt- 

 ful grubs which live under the bark, and the sharp, barbed tongue 

 is especially fitted to pick them out of the holes which are dug with 

 the stout chisel-like beak. 



Eats a little fruit, chiefly wild berries, and is a hard-working 

 member of the guilds of Tree Trappers and Ground Gleaners, as 

 he eats not only grubs, but ants, beetles, bugs, caterpillars, and 

 spiders. He is also a Seed Sower, though in being so he and his 

 brothers, without intentional mischief, scatter the seeds from tlie 

 watery white berries of the poison ivy. He always digs for iiim- 

 self a nest in some partly decayed tree, and never takes long jour- 

 neys, but moves about only in search of food. 



THE EED-HEAUED WOODPECKER 



" There, that will do for the Downy," continued the 

 Doctor, as the children finished the table ; " only I ought 

 to tell you that I have a friend wdio calls him the Fly- 

 ing Checker-board, because he looks when he flies as if 

 he were checkered all over in squares of two colors — 

 black and white. The Red-head is a much gayer bird, 

 with three colors — ha! there goes one now! This is 

 Woodpecker day indeed, and we are in luck." 



A very handsome bird, glittering in the sun, had 

 come looping swiftly past, and swung himself up to the 

 broken-off top of a tall tree, where he rattled a loud 

 rataplan, as much as to say, " Am I not a fine fellow? " 



" Yes, I know him," said Rap eagerly ; " there's a pair 

 that have a nest in our orchard, tlie same I guess that 



