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The flight of the Woodpecker is very irregu- 
‘far; never ina ftraight line, but always up and 
down. Woodpeckers lay about five eggs, green- 
ty jfh, with black {pots. | 
. There is at Saint Dummies. or Hifpaniola, (an 
land in the Weft-Indies) a bird of the Wood- 
pecker kind, called the Carpenter. He {poils 
many of the palm-trees, for he bores them in 
-many places, and weakens them fo much, that 
- they are often blown down by the wind. This 
bird is not much larger than a Lark; his bill is 
about an inch in length, and fo boca, that inva 
day he can bore a palm-tree to the center. The 
palm-tree is fo hard, that it turns the edges of the 
beft iron tools. 
“Yhere is one American Woodpecker which 
is found in Brazil, is as large as a Pigeon; he 
has a fearlet head, anda creft of fcarlet feathers 
which reach to his back. 
from all the reft ; it has but three toes, two be- 
fore and one behind. It is found in Sweden, and 
- Siberia which is in Afia, and at Hudfon’s Bay in 
America, and is not much larger than a Linnet. 
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has a bill as white as ivory. Another kind which | 
There is one kind of Woodpecker that differs: 
PART 1-- Bde. 5 Genus” 
