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WOODl'KCKKHS IN KKLATION TO TREES. 
irregular swollen ridges covered by roughly fractured bark, but 
showing traces of regularly placed holes (A. A. and A. M. 235). 
Hawthorns {Crataegus). — Bendire says the sapsucker is "partial 
to the thorn apple," a statement fully justified. Out of a collection 
of 27 trunks of thorn trees in the American Museum, 13 were punc- 
tured. In the vicinity of Longbridge, La., practically all the haw 
trees (Crataegus opium) were pecked by sapsuckers, many of them 
showing swollen girdles. 
LIST OF HAWTHORNS ATTACKED BY SAPSUCKERS. 
{Crataegus crus-golli) — Marshall, Tex. (A. M. 229); (C. punctata)— 
Georgia (A. A. 226); (C. lacrimata)— Crestview, Fla. (A. M. 212); 
(C. oplma) — Longbridge, La.; (6". berlandieri) — Columbia, Tex. 
(A. M. 219); (C. boyntoni)—AsheYi\\e, N. C, (A. M. 215); (C. bra- 
zoria) — Brazoria, Tex. (A. M. 224); (C. collina) — Asheville, N. C. 
(A. A. and A. M. 225); (<?. texana)— Columbia, Tex. (A. M. 218); 
(C. mcittis)— Dallas, Tex. (A. M. 220); (C. marshalli)— South Caro- 
lina (A. M. 211); (C. monogyna) — Smithsonian grounds, District of 
Columbia. 
THE PLUMS AND CHERRIES (AMYGDALACE.E). 
This family, like the preceding, contains species of great commer- 
cial valu<3 — the peach, plums, and cherries. Two species of plums 
and one of cherry are known to be deformed by sapsucker work, and 
the cultivated peach and cherry are killed. Considerable damage is 
sometimes done to orchards of these trees. 
Tabulation o) Amygdalacea known to be attacked by sapsuckers. 
Conns. 
Cocoa plum < Chrysobalanus) 
Peach, plum, and cherry 
Grape cherries I Padua) 
Evergreen cherries ( Laurocerosus) 
Number of 
native 
species. 
Native 
species 
attacked. 
Introduced 
species 
attacked. 
LIST OP A.MYGDALACEiE ATTACKED. 
ALMOND (Amygdalus communis). — Penryn, Cal. (Budget t). 
Peach (Amygdalus persica). — Henshaw says. 
I n civilized districts the injury and even destruction of fruit trees [by the sapsueker] 
caused by the tearing off of large pieces of hark with the apparent design of reaching 
the tender inner hark or juices of the tree place it on the proscribed list of the fanners. 
In southern Dtah I visited peach orchards which had suffered severely from this 
