THE NUT-HATCH 



AND THE LESSER WOOD-PECKER 



If you have ever rested under the shade of 

 large forest trees, on some fine summer's 

 day, you must have witnessed the amusing- 

 gymnastics of the birds of the family of small 

 climbers, such as the lesser red wood- 

 pecker, the nut-hatch, the spotted wood- 

 pecker, and 1 should even say the golden 

 crowned wren and the titmouse, if I were not 

 going to speak of these last in a separate 

 chapter. In the distance, in the solemn silence of the big- 

 forest, you can hear the shrill cry and picking- of the 

 large climbers : the green wood-pecker, the great black 



