GOLD-WINCED WOODPECKER. 
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j ; descend into the upper niaiidible by the right 
? of the right nostril, and reach to within half an 
l,y of the point of the bill, to which they are attached 
another extremely elastic membrane, that yields 
the tongue is thrown out, and contracts as it is 
i^^tcted. In the other woodpeckci-s we behold the 
1^0 apparatus, differing a little in different species, 
these cartilaginous substances reach only to 
of the cranium ; in others, they reach to the 
; and, in one species, they are wound round the 
tL 0 of the right eye, which projects considerablj^ more 
tile left, for its accommodation, 
tongue of the gold-winged woodpecker, like the 
tiy also supplied with a viscid fluid, secreted by 
at ? glands that lie under the ear on each side, and are 
Oti '■‘ast five times larger in this species than in any 
of its size ; ndth this the tongue is continually 
so that every small insect it touches in.stantly 
^ ^•■es to it. The tail, in its strength and poiutedness, 
(jjl'oll as the feet and claws, prove that the bird was 
for climbing ; and in fact I have scarcely 
tli^l^Oen it on a tree five minutes at a time without 
lujO’og; hopping not only upward and downward, 
spirally ; pursuing and playing with its follow in 
^J^Uner round the body of the free. I have also 
fl'em a hundred times alight on the trunk of the tree, 
tl “O*"® frequently aliglit on the branches ; 
liij. I “t they climb, construct like nests, lay the same 
and the like coloured eggs, and have the 
Knd habits of the woodpeckers, is notorious to 
V American naturalist; while neither in the form 
somewhat bent, and the toes placed two before 
behind, have they the smallest resemblance 
yto'- ■ 
.ft 
-'‘tever to the cuckoo. 
tv! not be improper, however, to observe, that 
Nd* “"other species of woodpecker, called also 
'tvinged,# which inhabits the counfyy near the 
* Piews va/er, Turton’s Linn. 
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