THE YOUNG ORNITHOLOGIST. 



Later in the season I visited the 

 farm of one of the largest fruit grow- 

 ers of Grafton Co. The gentleman 

 after showing me many fine fruit trees, 

 complained of the troublesome nature 

 of the Woodpeckers, and showed me 

 many fine apple trees which had been 

 c(^mpletely destroyed by them. It was 

 a iioticeable f actthat the sweet and eai'- 

 lier varieties of trees were the ones 

 that were attacked, while the sour and 

 later varieties in many cases were un- 

 touched. 1 carefully traced these rav- 

 ages to the s[)ecies above mentioned. 

 1 am also iuelined to think, that a 

 rarer species {^Melaiierpeserythroceph- 

 alns) or Red-headed Woodpecker, is 

 guilty of committing the same crime. 

 John Burroughs, in an article vvrit- 

 len in one of the leading njaga- 

 zines this winter, mentions an inter- 

 esting instit nee where he has observed 

 the Yellow-bellied AYoodpecker in the 

 act of making the holes in the bark of 

 tlie Maple tree, in order to drink 

 the sap. I have been acquainted 

 with the {Colaptes unratus) Golden- 

 winged Woodpecker all ni}' life, and 

 have met with him at all season of the 

 year, and have yet to learn of any 

 sap-sucking propensities in him, or of 

 an instance where he has caused any 

 great harm. In regard to the Ked- 

 bellied Woodpecker, I fail to recog- 

 nize him under that nanu', but hope [ 

 that my friend finds that he is closely 

 related to one of the species that I 

 have desci'ibed. 



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