CHAP. PAGE
Foreword: the Riddlers[1]
I.How to know a Woodpecker[4]
II.How the Woodpecker catches a Grub[9]
III.How the Woodpecker courts his Mate[15]
IV.How the Woodpecker makes a House[20]
V.How a Flicker feeds her Young[24]
VI.Friend Downy[28]
VII.Persona non Grata. (Yellow-bellied Sapsucker)[33]
VIII.El Carpintero. (Californian Woodpecker)[46]
IX.A Red-headed Cousin. (Red-headed Woodpecker)[55]
X.A Study of Acquired Habits[60]
XI.The Woodpecker’s Tools: His Bill[68]
XII.The Woodpecker’s Tools: His Foot[77]
XIII.The Woodpecker’s Tools: His Tail[86]
XIV.The Woodpecker’s Tools: His Tongue[99]
XV.How each Woodpecker is fitted for his own Kind of Life[104]
XVI.The Argument from Design[110]
APPENDIX[113]
A.Key to the Woodpeckers of North America[114]
B.Descriptions of the Woodpeckers of North America[117]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Flicker (colored)Frontispiece
Boring Larva[10]
Indian Spear[12]
Solomon Islander’s Spear[13]
Downy Woodpecker (colored)facing [28]
Bark showing Work of Sapsucker[34]
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (colored)facing [34]
Trunk of Tree showing Work of Californian Woodpecker[47]
Californian Woodpecker (colored)facing [48]
Red-headed Woodpecker (colored)facing [56]
Head of the Lewis’s Woodpecker[59]
Head of Ivory-billed Woodpecker[70]
Foot of Woodpecker[77]
Diagram of Right Foot[79]
Foot of Three-toed Woodpecker[80]
Tail of Hairy Woodpecker[86]
Tails of Brown Creeper and Chimney Swift[87]
Middle Tail Feathers of Flicker, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and Hairy Woodpecker[89]
Diagram of Curvature of Tails of Woodpeckers[90]
Patterns of Tails[91]
Under Side of Middle Tail Feather of Ivory-billed Woodpecker[97]
Tongue of Hairy Woodpecker[99]
Tongue-bones of Flicker[100]
Skull of Woodpecker, showing Bones of Tongue[101]
Hyoids of Sapsucker and Golden-fronted Woodpecker[102]
Diagram of Head of a Flicker[113]

The colored illustrations are by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. The text cuts are from drawings by John L. Ridgway.

THE WOODPECKERS