 | 1855 - 900 páginas
...that it is with difficulty extracted. Thus, the bark of a large pine, forty or fifty feet high , will present the appearance of being closely studded with...California : — ' In stripping off the bark of this tree 1 observed it to be perforated with holes larger than those which a musket-ball would make, shaped... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1856 - 322 páginas
...that it is with difficulty extracted. Thus, the bark of a large pine, forty or fifty feet high, will present the appearance of being closely studded with...are trespassed on by the jays, mice, and squirrels." RIRDS FROM THE PERUVIAN ANDES. MR. GOULB has exhibited to the Zoological Society a portion of a collection... | |
 | 1856 - 334 páginas
...that it is with difficulty extracted. Thus, the bark of a large pine, forty or fifty feet high, will present the appearance of being closely studded with...are trespassed on by the jays, mice, and squirrels." BIRDS FROM THE PERUVIAN AUDES. MR. GouiD has exhibited to the Zoological Society a portion of a collection... | |
 | 1856 - 428 páginas
...extracted. Thus the bark of a large pine, forty or fifty feet high, will present the appearance of being studded with brass nails, the heads only being visible....woodpecker in the winter season, but are trespassed on by jays, mice, and squirrels. • ON THE BIRDS OF THE UPPEE AMAZON. At a recent meeting of the London... | |
 | 1856 - 426 páginas
...extracted. Thus the bark of a large pine, forty or fifty feet high, will present the appearance of being studded with brass nails, the heads only being visible....woodpecker in the winter season, but are trespassed on by jays, mice, and squirrels. ON THE BIRDS OF THE UPPER AMAZON. At a recent meeting of the London Zoological... | |
 | 1887 - 422 páginas
...hole with great force a single acorn. "Thus the bark of a large pine forty or fifty feet high will present the appearance of being closely studded with brass nails, the heads only being visible." It has, by some, been denied that these acorns are collected for food ; and it is quite probable that... | |
 | Alfred Newton - 1894 - 668 páginas
...which it purposely makes in the bark of trees, and thus "a large pine forty or fifty feet high will present the appearance of being closely studded with brass nails, the heads only being visible." An extraordinary thing is that this is not done to furnish food in winter, for the species migrates,... | |
 | United States. World's Columbian Commission. Committee on Awards - 1901 - 996 páginas
...to be extracted with difficulty. Sometimes almost an entire dead tree is thus utilized, presenting "the appearance of being closely studded with brass nails, the heads only being visible." It has been stated that only those acorns are selected which contain the egg of a grub, and that the... | |
 | 1901 - 994 páginas
...to be extracted with difficulty. Sometimes almost an entire dead tree is thus utilized, presenting "the appearance of being closely studded with brass nails, the heads only being visible." It has been stated that only those acorns are selected which contain the egg of a grub, and that the... | |
 | 1921 - 1196 páginas
...acorns stored in this way that, as one authority puts it, "a large pine, 40 or 50 ft. high, will often present the appearance of being closely studded with brass nails, the heads only being visible." Unfortunately, however, the industrious bird often follows instinct too blindly, and stuffs the holes,... | |
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... In the autumn this species is busily engaged in digging small holes in the bark of the pines and oaks, to receive acorns, one of which is placed in each hole, and is so tightly fitted or driven in that it is with difficulty extracted. Thus, the bark... 