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defert her eggs or young. The male alfo fhews the greateft tender- 
nefs for them and its mate, during the time of incubation. 
It feeds on all kinds of infe@ts, as well as nuts: of the latter, it 
lays up a confiderable hoard in the hollows of trees, and brings 
them out when other food is fearce. The manner of its cracking 
the nut is curious, and has been noticed by feveral authors, and par- 
ticularly Willoughby: he fays, ‘* It is a pretty fight to fee her fetch 
a nut out of her hoard, when, placing it faft in a chink, fhe ftands 
above it, with the head downwards, and, ftriking it with all her 
force, breaks the fhell, and catches up the kernel.” 
In its manners, it is not unlike the Woodpecker tribe. It is 
not fuppofed to fleep perched; for, when confined in a cage, it 
would creep into a corner at night to fleep. Dr. Plott fays, ‘* this 
bird, by putting its bill into a crack in. the bough of a tree, can 
make fuch a violent found as if it was rending afunder, fo that the 
noife may be heard at leaft twelve {core yards.” 
It is not migratory, but changes its fituation in winter. Pennant 
obferves, that it makes a chattering noife in Autumn. Latham 
fays, he has been informed, that.it has, at times, a whiftle like 
that of a man. 
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