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The flight of the Woodpecker i is very irregu- 
Jar; never ina ftraight line, but always up and - | 
down. Woodpeckers lay about five eggs, green- 
sith, with black fpots.. 

There is at Saint Domingo, or Hifpaniola, (an 
~ ifland in the Weft: Indies) a bird of the ‘Wood- 
“pecker kind, called the Carpenter. He fpoils 
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 ftrong, that ina 
day he can bore a palm- tree to the center, The 
-. palm-tree i is {6 hard, that it turns the edges of Fthe 
_ Deft iron tools, - | : | 
‘There is one American Woodpecker which 
“has a bill as white as ivory. Another kind which 
is found in Brazil, i is.as large as a Pigeon ; he: - 
has a {carlet head, and a creft of fearlet feathers . 
ae ; which reach to his back. 
‘There is one kind of Sa aeeeces that differs 
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 i is not much larger than a Linnet. 
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