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lire in his task, for not only do the hairy and downy wood¬ 
peckers make holes for nests, probably new each year, but 
during the winter 
they drill numerous 
places for shelter, 
changing from tree to 
tree,seemingly as fan¬ 
cy prompts, or as a 
boy whittles, for the 
fun of it. 
When a wood lot 
near Manchester was 
‘ ‘slashed’ ’ a few years 
since, a clump of pop¬ 
lars and ancient 
birches was left. Fire 
passed through soon 
after,killing the trees, 
and they Stand there, 
with twisted trunks 
and broken branches, 
suggesting the pic¬ 
ture by Dore in the 
“Inferno.” Here has 
been a grand oppor¬ 
tunity for the wood¬ 
peckers and for the 
naturalist. No fewer 
than twenty trunks, 
still ’ standing, have 
been drilled repeat¬ 
edly, sometimes for 
shelter, less frequent¬ 
ly for nests, while as 
Fig. 2. many more trees now 
prostrate had been similarly treated before they fell. Fig- 
