THE WOODPECKER FAMILY 165 
Another thing this bird can do is dance. Two 
flickers will stand opposite one another and take 
funny little steps, forward and back, and side- 
ways. Then they will touch their bills together 
and go through several graceful figures. This 
has been seen several times by persons whose 
truthfulness can be relied upon. 
The Rep-HEADED WoopPEcKER is another 
common one of the family, especially in the Mid- 
dle States. He is a little smaller than the flicker. 
No one can mistake this bird, he is so plainly 
marked. His whole head is bright red. The 
rest of him is black, or bluish black, with a large 
mass of white on the body and wings. 
This woodpecker, too, has partly given up 
getting food from under the bark. He takes a 
good deal on the wing, like a flycatcher. Some- 
times he goes to the ground for a large insect like 
a cricket or grasshopper, and he is fond of nuts, 
especially the little three-cornered beech-nut. 
The red-head is beginning to store food for 
winter use, for most woodpeckers do not migrate. 
When beech-nuts are ripe, he gets great quanti- 
ties of them, and packs them away in queer 
places, where he can find them when he wants 
them. 
Some of his nuts the red-head puts in cavities 
