110 FLORIDA 



Pileated woodpeckers are birds good to look 

 at, and, wild as they look, it is pleasant to find 

 them so approachable. But in fact, this is most 

 productive woodpecker country. Here are flick- 

 ers in abundance, red-bellies almost as many, and 

 along with them the red-headed, the red-cockaded 

 (in the pine lands), the yellow-bellied (least com- 

 mon of all), the downy, and the hairy ; all, in 

 short, that could be expected, with the exception 

 of the ivory-billed ; and (such is human nature) 

 I would give more to see him than all the rest 

 together. 



Well, I will not wish time away, as the say- 

 ing is. I begin to perceive that I have none to 

 spare. But I shall rejoice when some morning I 

 go out and find the conductor's arm lifted, and 

 the chorus minding the beat. 



