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PROTECTION AGAINST BIRDS. 



Dobner, Vogt, the brothers Miiller, Taschenberg, Borggreve, 

 Korclliiiger and others consider tluit the utility of woodpeckers 

 outweighs the harm they may do, and Hess expresses himself 



Fig. 55 - Scots piuc coues fixed 

 into a tree by woodpecker 

 (\ nat. size). 



Fig. o(j, — Spruce coue attacked by 

 woodpecker. 



as of the same opinion, from the most recent observations on 

 the subject. 



3. Damage done hi Wood])eckers. 



Woodpeckers eat forest-seeds, peck wounds in saplings, and 

 holes in sound poles and trees ; they girdle sound trees and 

 destroy telegraph-poles and wooden rouf-shingles. 



