“Your drunken jargon through the fields, 
Your bobolinkish gabble, 
Your fine anacreontic glee, 
Your tipsy revellers babble.” 
There are but three Woodpeckers that 
are common here: the Downy, the 
Hairy and the Golden-winged. They can- 
not be termed musical, their note beinga 
rattle. The Golden-winged Woodpecker 
is often called Flicker, Highhole and 
Wakeup, the latter name being derived 
from its note, which is ‘‘ Wakeup, wake- 
up, wakeup.’’ ‘This bird, unlike others of 
his family, is often seen upon the ground, 
and is a great devourer of ants, which 
it obtains by thrusting its long, rough 
and flexible tongue into the ant holes. 
The Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers | 
are generally known as Sapsuckers. The 
Red-headed Woodpecker is. seldom seen 
here, though it was once quite common ¥ 
in Western Massachusetts. It is a very 
showy bird, adorned with the national 
colors of red, white and blue. 
