Bureau Nature Study, 



_ 100 NATURE STUDY LESSONS FOR /PRIMARY .GRADES 



OjRNFU UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, Jv. Y . 



What bird have we been talking about? (The 

 robin redbreast.) And what other bird have we 

 been looking for? (The red-headed woodpecker.) 

 How many have seen one ? What was it doing ? 

 (Knocking on tree trunks, running up trees, or fly- 

 ing.) Why were the woodpeckers knocking on the 

 trees ? (They were making holes through the bark.) 

 Why? (To get at the grubs or insects under the 

 bark.) How can a woodpecker make this hole? 

 (A stuffed specimen would be of use in studying 

 the bill as adapted to its work; if this cannot be 

 had a good picture could be used to advantage, for 

 the children cannot get close enough to the bird to 

 examine its bill. There is a good picture in Hooker's 

 " Child's Book of Nature," Part II, and in " Birds " 

 there is an excellent colored picture.) (Its bill is 

 long, straight, and pointed.) How much noise does 

 it make knocking ? How does it sound ? When it 

 has the hole made, how does it get the grub ? 

 (It thrusts out its long, narrow, pointed tongue. 

 The end of its tongue is hard and has little teeth 

 pointing backward in this way — showing by dia- 

 gram on the board. It can run this tongue out 

 far beyond the end of its bill and do it very quickly. 

 When a grub is once pierced by this hook it cannot 



