LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Flicker (colored) . . . . . . . . Frontispiece 



Boring Larva 10 



Indian Spear 12 



Solomon Islander's Spear 13 



Downy Woodpecker (colored) facing 28 



Bark showing Work of Sapsucker 34 



Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (colored) .... facing 34 



Trunk of Tree showing Work of Californian Woodpecker . 47 



Calif ornian Woodpecker (colored) .... facing 48 



Red-headed Woodpecker (colored) .... facing 56 



Head of the Lewis's Woodpecker 59 



Head of Ivory-billed Woodpecker 70 



Foot of Woodpecker 77 



Diagram of Right Foot 79 



Foot of Three-toed Woodpecker 80 



Tail of Hairy Woodpecker 86 



Tails of Brown Creeper and Chimney Swift .... 87 

 Middle Tail Feathers of Flicker, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and 



Hairy Woodpecker .89 



Diagram of Curvature of Tails of Woodpeckers ... 90 



Patterns of Tails 91 



Under Side of Middle Tail Feather of Ivory-billed Woodpecker 97 



Tongue of Hairy Woodpecker 99 



Tongue-bones of Flicker 100 



Skull of Woodpecker, showing Bones of Tongue ... 101 



Hyoids of Sapsucker and Golden-fronted Woodpecker . . 102 



Diagram of Head of a Flicker 113 



The colored illustrations are by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. The text 

 cuts are from drawings by John L. Bid g way. 



