1902
June 8
(No 3)
among its foliage for about ten minutes every 
now and then uttering a low, guttural yup-yup
(always two syllables only) which I do not remember
ever hearing before.
  At the end of the period last mentioned the female came
flying (or rather sailing) into the tree and alighted a yard
or two above her mate. Half a minute later she flew to
the stub and alighted directly beneath the hole and fed
the young. She then flew off through the trees returning
after an absence of fifteen or twenty minutes and alighting
at the top of the stub where she hopped down backwards
keeping behind the trunk until she reached the level of
the hole when she scrambled around to it and again fed
the young. They were also fed soon afterwards by the male parent
who had likewise been absent for a short time.
  We witnessed the operation of feeding to the best possible
advantage, using our glasses freely. When one of the old birds
reached the hole (never before) the young set up a loud clamor
calling a-a-a-a-a (or eh-eh-eh-eh-eh) in strident, rasping
(but not hissing) tones. The next instant their heads would
appear at the entrance each mouth opened to its widest extent
and vociferating for food. The parent bird fed them in turn,
by regurgitation, thrusting its bill deep into the mouth of
the young bird and pumping in the food by several quick
forward movements of the head, slower and less convulsive, however,
than those of the parent Flicker. While thus engaged the 
old bird clung to the trunk just below the hole in a firm
yet graceful attitude. The thrusts were all directly forward
(not downward) the heads & bills of both the parent &
its offspring being held nearly horizontal. There were at
least two and we thought three young. They appeared to
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