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sense food, the exception being in one case where a little cambium 

 bad been eaten by one individual of the Arctic Three-toed Wood- 

 pecker {Picoides arcticus) and a few skins of some small fruit by one 

 Alpine Three-toed Wood-pecker {P. americanus dorsalis). The 

 animal food consisted of 63 per cent, of wood-boring Coleopterous 

 larvse (beetles), 1 1 per cent, of Lepidopterous larvae (caterpillars), 

 probably also wood-borers, and 9 per cent, of adult beetles, ants, and 

 other Hymenopterous insects. 



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