THE FOOD OF THE RED-HEAD 



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wild fruit and seeds. The insect food consisted of ants, wasps, 

 beetles, bugs, grasshoppers, crickets, moths, caterpillars, 



RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 



spiders and thousand-legged worms. In the fruit season the 

 Red-Head undoubtedly does considerable damage to fruit 

 crops, more by mutilating fruit, perhaps, than by actual loss 



