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spread <:r wings and Utter a "wli': e e ' ee." Fhis call, win' fi w:i 8 it-, loudest al its middle point, rose and then fell to the same pitch ai which it was begun. This love making greatly resembles thai oi Flickers, which rriosi people who arc interested in birds must surely have seen. The parents, when feeding their young, usually alighted within a space of three feel below the hole, an'l never directly at it-, entrance They would pause here for a moment as though fearing they were observed by someone. Then they would hop up to the hole and look in, anywben from two up to six times, as if accustoming theii eyes to the darkness Onc< in a while grubs could be seen in their bills, but, from the actions of the birds when feeding their young, they appeared to be regurgitating During twenty four hours the female fed the young thirty tun'-, and the male twenty run': timi As it grew dusk, the young gradually grew guicter, and their little "peep-peep peep" greatly resembled those of < hi< ks when crawling beneath their mother's wings. From two o'clock in the afternoon till seven clock that evei ■ ; two minutes was the longest period during which the young did not utter a single peep." From seven cm. until two minutes after four the next morning, the young bird) ceased this continuous chattering The mother was the last to feed tbcm at night, the time being seventeen minutes after seven; hut the male was up first in the morning At four fifteen in the morning, the young uttered a few Jeepy "peepi and the ma)': alighted three feet below the hole at four sixteen. 'I he young birds beard him alight and immediately commenced to chatter. 'I be male bo up to the hole, looked in twice, and then fed them, 'I he young birds' bills were seen, indicating that they wen very hungry, and w-re banging on to the inner wall of the nest near the entranc< Soon after this their hunger was appej e< their bills were seen no more, and the parents dad to go almost into the hole to feed them. The parents slept al some distance from the tree, presumab rate hole-,, as we found a Hairy Woodpecker's and also an American Three toed Woodpecker's i eeping hole, where single birds wen observed --, retire. These sleeping holes /." r< oc< ipie< by males, arid it is guir*. •', ay that the male and female sleep in different treet Jn tin; course of the morning, two Re< breasted Nuthatches tormented the Woo- : ." k< rs for fifteen minutes. Before venturing near the dole, the Nuthatcl ' ■ -heir bills together. Perhaps they w-re bidding each other their i • goo ' n case on< or both of them should meet death in their enco titer with then largei ersari* They hovered around the hole /• •■ ••s holding their tails up like Wrens. One of them finally ventured into the hole so far that just his ts /• 'at protr ding Tb< wo ■ fly away when the parents approached 'fie hole bul would retun I the nest wj - rotecte< •' ftei - ne time the male Woodpecker wenl