Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 206
ives a similar wood-pecker, who stores his nuts and acorns in thehollow stalks of the yuccas and magueys.These hollow stalks are separated by jointsinto several cavities, and the sagacious birdhas somehow found this cut, and bores ahole at the upper end of each joint, andanother at the lower,… … THE WOODPECKERS STOREHOUSE. of any other thievish birdor four-footed animal. The first place in whichthis curious habit was ob-served was on a hill inthe midst of a desert.The hill was covered withyuccas and magueys, butthe nearest oak trees werethirty miles away; and so,it was calculated,…
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