Summer Birds of the Redwoods, 



patches of pure white appear on the 

 wings and rump. The note of the 

 California woodpecker is a loud ka-rac'r 

 kdy ka-rac'-ka^ ka-rac'-ka^ although its 

 most familiar call is the resonant rap- 

 ping on the dead limb, which may be 

 heard at a surprisingly long distance in 

 the forest silence. 



Other woodpeckers there are in these 

 far-reaching wildernesses of forest land 

 — the great log-cock, with one excep- 

 tion the largest American representa- 

 tive of his family, the more humbly 

 attired Harris' woodpecker, adorned 

 with only a dash of scarlet on the back 

 of his head, and otherwise black and 

 white ; and at times the little Gairdner's 

 woodpecker, his counterpart in minia- 

 ture. 



There is another bird which, if we are 

 attentive in our redwood rambles, we 

 shall be sure to meet, which in habits 

 is somewhat like a woodpecker, although 

 the little fellow is not more than half 

 the size of the smallest of that tribe. 

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