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the chips with his bill, and scraping 1 them out with his 
feet. They also not unfrequently choose the orchard 
for breeding 1 in, and even an old stake of the fence, 
which they excavate for this purpose. The female 
lays five white eggs, and hatches in June, This species 
is more numerous than the last in Pennsylvania, and 
snore domestic ; frequently approaching the farm-house 
and skirts of the town. In Philadelphia I have many 
times observed them examining old ragged trunks of 
the willow and poplar while people were passing 
immediately below. Their cry is strong, shrill, and 
tremulous ; they have also a single note or chuck , which 
they often repeat, in an eager manner, as they hop 
about, and dig into the crevices of the tree. They 
inhabit the continent from Hudson’s Bay to Carolina 
and Georgia. 
The hairy woodpecker is nine inches long, and fifteen 
in extent; crown, black; line over and under the eye, 
white ; the eye is placed in a black line, that widens as 
it descends to the back; hind head, scarlet, sometimes 
intermixed with black ; nostrils hid under remarkably 
thick, bushy, recumbent hairs or bristles ; under the bill 
are certain long hairs thrown forward and upward ; 
bill, a bluish horn colour, grooved, wedged at the end, 
straight, and about an inch and a quarter long ; touches 
of black, proceeding from the lower mandible, end in a 
broad black strip that joins the black on the shoulder; 
back, black, divided by a broad lateral strip of white, 
the feathers composing which are loose and unwebbed, 
resembling hairs, whence its name ; rump and shoulders 
of the wing, black ; wings, black, tipped and spotted 
with white, three rows of spots being visible on the 
secondaries, and five on the primaries ; greater wing- 
ooverts also spotted with white ; tail, as in the others, 
cuneiform, consisting of ten strong-shafted and pointed 
feathers, the four middle ones black, the next partially 
white, the two exterior ones white, tinged at the tip 
with a brownish burnt colour; tail-coverts, black; 
whole lower side, pure white; legs, feet, and claws, 
light blue, the latter remarkably large and strong; inside 
