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and orchards, or wherever frail and berries are to be 

 had. The note is a sharp, single sound not unlike 

 the 'Pick/' of a Blackbird; and, like the Spotted 

 Woodpecker, the Barred Woodpecker beats a tattoo 

 with his bill on the bark of trees, this being done 

 so rapidly as to form a continuous rattling sound 

 audible at a considerable distance. This sound is to 

 be heard frequently in spring, when the bird neate, 

 as usual with Woodpeckers, in a hole bored by him 

 in the trunk or one of the leading branches of a 

 decaying tree. The Barred Woodpecker seldom, if 

 ever, goes to the ground. 



SPOTTED WOODPECKER 10 inches; is also of a 

 complicated black-and-white pattern, bat is nearly 

 three times as large. 



WRYNECK 7J inches ; occasionally a trunk climber, bat 

 ruddy-gray in general appearance. The note u rery 

 like that of the Barred Woodpecker. 



NUTHATCH 6f inches; trunk -climber, pereber. and 

 hanger, but plain blue -gray above, and buff and 

 chestnut below. 



TREE-CREEPER 4j inches; a small trunk -climber, 

 brownish above, silky-white below ; bill slender and 

 curved. 



TREE-CREEPER. Plate 66. 4} inches. Upper 

 parts brown, minutely variegated with black, white, 

 and buff; streak above the eye and under parts 

 silky-white; bill long, slender, and curved down- 

 wards. Resident 



Eggs. 6-9, white, spotted with reddish-brown, 

 chiefly at the larger end ; -62 * '47 inch (plate 126). 



