This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...'How the Woodpecker catches a Grub, ' how he 'courts his mate, ' 'makes a house, ' etc., with four chapters on his 'tools'--his bill, foot, tail, and tongue, etc. A special chapter is also devoted to each of several leading species, as the Flicker, the Downy Woodpecker, the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, the Redheaded ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...'How the Woodpecker catches a Grub, ' how he 'courts his mate, ' 'makes a house, ' etc., with four chapters on his 'tools'--his bill, foot, tail, and tongue, etc. A special chapter is also devoted to each of several leading species, as the Flicker, the Downy Woodpecker, the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, the Redheaded Woodpecker, and the Californian Woodpecker. Then there is a lThe Woodpeckers By Fannie Hardy Eckstorm With Illustrations Vignette Boston and New York Houghton MifHin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1901--Square 12mo. pp. viii-f-132, 5 col. pll. and 22 text cuts. Price, $ 1.00. chapter on 'acquired habits, ' and on the 'argument from design, ' and finally an Appendix (pp. 114-127) comprising a ' Key to the Woodpeckers of North America, ' and 'Descriptions of North American Woodpeckers.' There is also a good index. The book evinces a thorough familiarity with woodpecker life and structure, gained through personal observation and study, and ability to impart such knowledge clearly and in an attractive way without any sacrifice of scientific accuracy. The book is thus well adapted to instruct and inspire amateurs, whether youthful or of more advanced years. Of the illustrations it is enough to say that the five colored plates are by Fuertes, and the text illustrations from drawings by J. L. Ridgway.--J. A. A. Shufeldt's Recent Contributions to our Knowledge of the Osteology of Birds.1--In the first of these papers Dr. Shufeldt briefly reviews the osteological characters of the Sand Grouse, concluding that they belong where they are usually placed, between the Pigeons and Gallinaceous Birds, and form a suborder, the Pterocles. In the Osteology of the Woodpeckers we are given a somewhat detailed and comparative account of the osteology of the North ...
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