GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKEER; 
FLICKER. 
COLAPTES AURATUS. 
HE loud, monotonous vocalizing of this handsome 
bird is hardly song; still we often hear it said, 
“The woodwall is singing, we are going to have rain.” 
The two-toned “rain-call” is his song, if he have one. 
The performance is long enough for a song, but rather 
narrow. 
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If the cuckoo, whose song is so famous, can be called a 
singer, this woodpecker is a songster; for he performs 
