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important part of the food. The redhead has a peculiar 

 habit of selecting very large beetles, as shown by the 

 presence of fragments of several of the largest species 

 in the stomachs examined. Among the beetles were 

 quite a number of predaceous ground species and some 

 tiger beetles, which are useful insects. The redhead 

 has been accused of robbing the nests of other birds, 

 but there is no proof of this. 



RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 



