Organs of Nutrition 



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possesses a tongue of remarka})le length, even for a wood- 

 pecker, and while feeding, the bird will often shoot it 



Fig. 95. — Head of P'licker, showing longuf' slightly protruding 



out two or three inches beyond the tip of the benk 

 Easily and without a hitch it disap|)ears again, appa- 



FiG. 96— Skull of Flicker, showing rear branches of the hyoid bono, curving up 

 over the skull and down into the right nostril. The front ol the tongue i> 

 visible beyond the tip ot the beak. 



rently down the very throat of the bird. If we carefully 

 remove the skin from the skull of a dead I'lickor. th.e 

 magic will become plain. When we spoke of the skull 



