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Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library
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Text Appearing After Image: Fm. 2Hf>.— Belted kingfisher (O/-//fc a They are especially an Old World family, but one genus,Ceryle, has found its way into North America and eveninto South America. These birds feed chiefly on fish, andthey have gained a compact oily plumage to prevent themfrom getting wet when they plunge for their prey. Ourspecies is known as the belted, kingfisher (Fig. 285). THE ENGLISH 8PA1U1OW ANT) ITS ALLIES 301 The woodpeckers include for the most part arborealbirds which feed chiefly on insects and have loud, harshcries. The common idea that they are sap-suckers anddestructive to trees seems to be true only of one of ourspecies — the yellow-bellied woodpecker.The heavy, long billenables woodpeckersto peck holes in treesfor wood-eating in-sects, and the long,barbed, protrusibletongue aids in remov-ing the prey. Ourcommonest woodpeck-ers are the golden-winged woodpecker, orflicker,1 the red-headedwoodpecker, the hairywoodpecker, and thed o w n y woodpecker.An interesting ques-tion con
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