You remember that we called the Bluebird the Flag Bird, on account of his three colors.

But this Woodpecker has the red of the head much brighter than a Bluebird's breast, and shows purer white as he flies, in large spaces on his back and wings; though his blue is not so bright--it is what we call blue-black, very dark and glossy, like polished steel." "Do they stay around all the year ?" asked Nat.
"Some of them do, but not many.

They are very common in summer, but not as hardy as the Downies, and most of them go off south for the winter.
They are very merry, frolicsome birds, with all sorts of tricks and manners--even Dodo's Flickers are no jollier members of the Laughing Family." "Do they work when they are through playing ?" asked Nat; "and do any good ?" "Yes, indeed," answered the Doctor; "all kinds of Woodpeckers are industrious workers, and all of them except the Sapsuckers are very useful to us in destroying hurtful insects." "What kind of eggs do they lay ?" asked Dodo; "it must be hard to get a look at them in such deep holes so high up." "Very pretty ones indeed," replied the Doctor.

"They are not very easy to reach, though you can readily see the rounded hole that leads into the nest, for it is almost always bored in a bare, dead part of the tree.

I can show you some Woodpecker's eggs in my cabinet.