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THE WOODPECKERS
BY
FANNIE HARDY ECKSTORM
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1901
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COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY FANNIE HARDY ECKSTORM
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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To
MY FATHER
MR. MANLY HARDY
A Lifelong Naturalist
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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 Woodpecker) | 46 |
| IX. | A Red-headed Cousin. (Red-headed Woodpecker) | 55 |
| X. | ... Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |