A Glimpse of the Birds of Berkeley, 



the under parts are pinkish buff, marked 

 with a large black crescentic patch on 

 the breast and conspicuous round black 

 dots on the lower portions of the body. 

 In the springtime the flickers bore a 

 deep hole in a decayed oak limb, and 

 the mother bird lays there ten or more of 

 the most beautiful eggs which ever glad- 

 dened a mother bird's heart, save that I 

 fear her little home is too dark to give 

 her so much as a peep at her treasures. 

 They are white, with a wavy texture 

 like water-marks in the shell, and, when 

 fresh, beautifully flushed with pink, 

 more delicate in color than a baby's 

 ear. When the young brood are all 

 hatched what a clamoring and calling 

 there is about that hole, what an array 

 of hungry beaks are thrust out awaiting 

 the morsel that the busy parent carries 

 to them! But now, in the autumn 

 time, the family cares are ended and the 

 flicker roams the woodland contented 

 and well fed. Long may his piercing, 

 buoyant call ring amid our hills, and 

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