CHAPTER X. 



THE WOODPECKER AND THE 

 COPPERSMITH. 



I HAVE met with only one species of Woodpecker 

 in B o m- 

 bay, . but 

 it is fairly 

 common. 

 To give a 

 d e s c r i p- 

 tion of its 

 colours by 

 which one 

 who d i d 

 not know 

 it would 

 be likely to 

 recog n i s e 

 it, is not 

 easy ; but 

 anybody 

 who has 

 once seen 

 a Wood- 

 pecker 

 will know 

 i t again, 

 for there 



is no other 



The Coppersmith. 



bird like it. It does not perch among the branches of 



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