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WOODPECKERS.
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flight," observes Mr. Yarrell, "sufficient to transport the bird from tree to tree, are all that it
GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER.
seems to require: large pectoral muscles, with a deep keel to the breast-bone, would to this bird be an inconvenience. The advantage of a narrow, shallow keel is immediately apparent, on looking
