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STOEIES OF BIRD LIFE 



northern bird, for his true home is where he mates and 

 rears his young. 



His name is ''yellow-bellied sapsucker.'^ This is the 



kind of bird which perhaps girdled the shade tree in your 

 yard last spring by pecking so many holes in it to drink 

 the sap. He is the true sapsucker, and is fond of the juice 

 of many kinds of trees. The sap of the apple tree he re- 

 gards as especially pleasant, and often turns there for his 



