THE LIFE ABOUT THE NEST 



Northern States Flickers sometimes chisel holes 

 through the weatherboarding of ice-houses and 

 make cavities for their eggs in the tightly packed 

 sawdust within. They have been known also to lay 

 their eggs in nesting boxes put up for their accom- 

 modation. 



In travelling through the pine barrens of the 

 Southern States one frequently finds grouped about 

 the negroes' cabins and plantation houses the popular 

 chinaberry, or Pride of India tree. Here are the 

 places to look for the nest of the Hairy Woodpecker. 

 In that country, in fact, 1 have never found a, nest of 

 this bird except in the dead, slanting limb of a china- 

 berry tree. 



The member of this family which displays most 

 originality in its nest building is the Red-cockaded 

 Woodpecker. It is a Southern bird, and the abode 

 for its young is always chiselled from a living pitch- 

 pine tree. This, in itself, is very unusual for any of 

 our eastern Woodpeckers. The bird, however, has a 

 still stranger habit. For two or three feet above the 

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