Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 4 [September 1902]

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Various. Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 4 [September 1902]

NOVEMBER

THE PILEATED WOODPECKER (Ceophloeus pileatus.)

SABBATH BY THE LAKE

“HAMMOCK STORIES.” MRS. FIG TREE’S FAMILY HISTORY

BUILDING FOR BIRD TENANTS

THE LIGHT OF THE LEAVES

THE STARLING (Sturnus vulgaris.)

NOVEMBER

THE ARKANSAS GOLDFINCH (Spinus psaltria.)

TRAGEDY IN BIRD LIFE

THE LIFE OF AIRY WINGS

THE CELESTIAL BIRD

THE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER (Charadrius squatarola.)

SOME BIRD WONDERS

THE DIAMOND

INDIAN SUMMER

THE HORNED TOADS

DOWN IN DIXIE-LAND

MY BAT

THE ATLAS MOTH (Attacus atlas.)

A BUTTERFLY

WHEN BILLIE CAME BACK

BEAUTIFUL VINES TO BE FOUND IN OUR WILD WOODS. II

COMPTIE

THE RIVER PATH

EGG PLANT (Solanum esculentum L.)

A MYSTERY

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In years gone by, when large sections of the United States were covered with deeply wooded virgin forests frequented only by denizens of the wildwood, the Pileated Woodpecker was an abundant resident through nearly all of North America. A bird citizen of the deeper and more extensive forest regions, it has gradually retreated before the advance of man, and it is a very rare visitant in the Eastern States and is only found in the thickly settled and heavily timbered bottom lands which the human intruder seldom penetrates. In the Southern States it is more common and may be considered abundant in some sections.

Mr. Manly Hardy says: “The Pileated Woodpecker is a constant resident of Maine, but rarely leaves the vicinity of large timber. It prefers places where large hemlocks abound, especially those localities where a few have been killed by camp building or small fires.” A strange feature of its distribution is that, though it is distributed quite generally throughout North America, there are many heavily timbered areas, well suited to its habits, in which it is not found. If it occurs at all it is very rare in the Southern Rocky Mountain regions, and is also rare in Alaska.

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Mrs. Pepper rubbed two branches together, and it made the most sneery sound you ever heard, as she asked: “I suppose you want me to believe that ‘other tree’ was the pepper?”

“No,” replied Mrs. Fig, “I don’t think there were any pepper trees in the garden at all.”

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