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      THE WOODPECKERS

             BY

    FANNIE HARDY ECKSTORM

      WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

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        BOSTON AND NEW YORK
    HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
    The Riverside Press, Cambridge
               1901




COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY FANNIE HARDY ECKSTORM

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_To_ MY FATHER MR. MANLY HARDY _A Lifelong Naturalist_




CONTENTS


    CHAP.                                               PAGE

          FOREWORD: THE RIDDLERS                           1

       I. HOW TO KNOW A WOODPECKER                         4

      II. HOW THE WOODPECKER CATCHES A GRUB                9

     III. HOW THE WOODPECKER COURTS HIS MATE              15

      IV. HOW THE WOODPECKER MAKES A HOUSE                20

       V. HOW A FLICKER FEEDS HER YOUNG                   24

      VI. FRIEND DOWNY                                    28

     VII. PERSONA NON GRATA. (YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER)   33

    VIII. EL CARPINTERO. (CALIFORNIAN W