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but rather laboriously, owing perhaps to their great size. They 
are probably the only members of their family in New Eng- 
land, whom the hawks never attack. One of our common 
woodpeckers may sometimes be seen adroitly dodging around 
some limb, while a disappointed hawk vainly endeavors to 
seize him. But should there be a pair of his enemies, he does 
not always escape, unless he can take refuge in a hole. 
(d). The Log-cocks, besides the loud rolling sound of their 
hammering (audible for even a mile), often produce a loud 
cackling, not wholly unlike that of a hen. Hence, a country- 
man, asked by a sportsman if there were woodcock in a cer- 
tain place, answered that he often heard ‘“ them hollering in 
the woods!” 
