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instead of a white belly, and a white 

 line over the eye, underscored by a 

 black one, the latter running through 

 the eye. Nuthatches nest in holes in 

 trees, often those that have been bored 

 and deserted by Woodpeckers. The 

 notes of both species are a nasal ^^ yank- 

 yank/' although the Red-breast's call is 

 thinner and more nasal. 



Woodpeckers and the Creeper 

 The Downy (Plate 17, p. 127) and 

 Hairy Woodpeckers are striped black 

 and white on the head, back, wings and 

 tail. The breast is white. The males 

 have a patch of scarlet on their crown, 

 but this the females lack. With the ex- 

 ception of the slight difference in the 

 markings of the tail, there is no differ- 

 ence in the color of the Downy and 

 Hairy Woodpeckers, but the much 

 larger size of the latter readily dis- 



