TRUNK-CLIMBING BIRDS. 145 



and orchards, or wherever fruit and berries are to be 

 had. The note is a sharp, single sound not unhke 

 the ' Pick !' of a Blackbird ; and, like the Spotted 

 Woodpecker, the Barred Woodpecker beats a tattoo 

 with his bill on the bark of trees, this being done 

 so rapidly as to form a continuous rattling sound 

 audible at a considerable distance. This sound is to 

 be heard frequently in spring, when the bird nests, 

 as usual with Woodpeckers, in a hole bored by him 

 in the trunk or one of the leading branches of a 

 decaying tree. The Barred Woodpecker seldom, if 

 ever, goes to the ground. 



SPOTTED WOODPECKER— 10 inches; is also of a 

 complicated black-and-white pattern, but is nearly 

 three times as large. 



WRYNECK — 7^ inches ; occasionally a trunk-climber, but 

 ruddy-gray in general appearance. The note is very 

 like that of the Barred Woodpecker. 



NUTHATCH — 5| inches; trunk -climber, percher, and 

 hanger, but plain blue -gray above, and bufl' and 

 chestnut below. 



TREE-CREEPER — 4| inches; a small trunk- climber, 

 brownish above, silky-white below; bill slender and 

 curved. 



TREE-CREEPER.— Plate QQ. 4f inches. Upper 

 parts brown, minutely variegated with black, white, 

 and bufl'; streak above the eye and under parts 

 silky- white ; bill long, slender, and curved down- 

 wards. Resident. 



Eggs. — 6-9, white, spotted with red dish- brown, 

 chiefly at the larger end ; -62 x '47 inch (plate 126). 



