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WOODPECKERS 



high up on conspicuous tree-trunks. In the Zoological Park 

 we put up every winter at least twenty-five two-pound strips 

 of fat pork, for the woodpeckers and chickadees which live 

 with us all the year round. 



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GOLDEX-WIXGED WOODPECKER. 



The Goldex-Wixged Woodpecker 1 is my favorite of 

 the members of this Order. It is a bird of good size, dignified 

 in bearing, decidedly handsome, and a great worker. He 

 loves to hunt insects on the ground, occasionally, but is very 

 alert and watchful, meanwhile. If you approach too near, 

 he leaps into the air, and with a succession of wave-like sweeps 



1 Co-lap'tes au-ra'tus lu'te-us. Length, about 12 inches. 



