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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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beapplied. They lack the long, extensile tongue which enablesthe other species to probe the winding passages made bylarva?. The sapsuckers are found feeding largely upon thesap and inner bark of trees; they also feed upon insectsattracted by the sap. In some localities they injure valu-able timber by chipping off bark and girdling the trunk andlarger limbs with small holes. This handsome bird devoursmany insects, but its fondness for the sap of trees, includingapple and other orchard trees, with its habit of cutting outsections of the bark to obtain its favorite tipple, renders itinjurious in some localities. It is one of a number of birdsthat are harmful and beneficial by turns, or according tolocality. Little blame attaches to the orchardist who black-lists the sapsucker, but he should familiarize himself withthe other woodpeckers, that he may distinguish this fromother kinds. The birds often excavate a nesting site in living trees,but in the mountainous regions of New Hampshire and
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RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKEK. (Sphyrapicus ruber, i Nearly Life-siz.-. WOODPECKERS, CUCKOOS, ETC. 227 Maine the birds exhibit a decided preference for deadbirches. The average height of the excavation from theground is about forty feet. Many of the nests are gourd-like in shape, with sides very smoothly and evenly chiseledby both sexes, usually to the depth of about fourteen inches.Three to seven pure white eggs are laid. THE RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER* The Red-breasted Sapsucker is a resident of the PacificCoast, ranging from northern Lower California northwardto southern Alaska. It extends its flight and breeds as fareast as the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains. Itbelongs to the family of woodpeckers. Like its eastern relative, the yellow-bellied sapsucker, itpunctures trees, possibly in order to feed upon the exudingsap or the insects attracted by its flow. The adult birds arebeautifully marked with crimson on the head and breast,while in the young the color is brownish and the yellow oft

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