OUR HOME BIRDS. 
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Fig. 7. — Golden-winged Woodpecker. 
and ‘yellow-hammer/ both from his color and the 
strange pounding noise he makes on his old tree. 
“ The long, loud call with which Yellow-Hammer 
seems to announce his arrival when winter is over 
has an unmistakable sound of spring in it, remind- 
ing one, it has well been said, of the Bible words, 
‘ the voice of the turtle is heard in the land/ 
“ The color of this bird is a bright golden yellow, 
with black and dark umber on the back, a venerable- 
looking iron-gray head, and a little mixture of white, 
bluish -gray, and deep red on the under parts. He is 
quite a large bird, varying from twelve to twenty 
