{"product_id":"2940016110875","title":"The Woodpeckers","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAP.                                               PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          FOREWORD: THE RIDDLERS                           1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       I. HOW TO KNOW A WOODPECKER                         4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      II. HOW THE WOODPECKER CATCHES A GRUB                9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     III. HOW THE WOODPECKER COURTS HIS MATE              15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      IV. HOW THE WOODPECKER MAKES A HOUSE                20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       V. HOW A FLICKER FEEDS HER YOUNG                   24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      VI. FRIEND DOWNY                                    28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VII. PERSONA NON GRATA. (YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER)   33\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VIII. EL CARPINTERO. (CALIFORNIAN WOODPECKER)         46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      IX. A RED-HEADED COUSIN. (RED-HEADED WOODPECKER)    55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       X. A STUDY OF ACQUIRED HABITS                      60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XI. THE WOODPECKER'S TOOLS: HIS BILL                68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XII. THE WOODPECKER'S TOOLS: HIS FOOT                77\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XIII. THE WOODPECKER'S TOOLS: HIS TAIL                86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIV. THE WOODPECKER'S TOOLS: HIS TONGUE              99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XV. HOW EACH WOODPECKER IS FITTED FOR HIS OWN\u003cbr\u003e                               KIND OF LIFE              104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XVI. THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN                       110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    APPENDIX                                             113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       A. KEY TO THE WOODPECKERS OF NORTH AMERICA        114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       B. DESCRIPTIONS OF THE WOODPECKERS OF\u003cbr\u003e                               NORTH AMERICA             117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                        PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Flicker (colored)                         _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Boring Larva                                          10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Indian Spear                                          12\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Solomon Islander's Spear                              13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Downy Woodpecker (colored)                   _facing_ 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Bark showing Work of Sapsucker                        34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (colored)           _facing_ 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Trunk of Tree showing Work of Californian Woodpecker  47\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Californian Woodpecker (colored)             _facing_ 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Red-headed Woodpecker (colored)              _facing_ 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Head of the Lewis's Woodpecker                        59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Head of Ivory-billed Woodpecker                       70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Foot of Woodpecker                                    77\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Diagram of Right Foot                                 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Foot of Three-toed Woodpecker                         80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Tail of Hairy Woodpecker                              86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Tails of Brown Creeper and Chimney Swift              87\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Middle Tail Feathers of Flicker, Ivory-billed\u003cbr\u003e             Woodpecker, and Hairy Woodpecker             89\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Diagram of Curvature of Tails of Woodpeckers          90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Patterns of Tails                                     91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Under Side of Middle Tail Feather of\u003cbr\u003e             Ivory-billed Woodpecker                      97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Tongue of Hairy Woodpecker                            99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Tongue-bones of Flicker                              100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Skull of Woodpecker, showing Bones of Tongue         101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Hyoids of Sapsucker and Golden-fronted Woodpecker    102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Diagram of Head of a Flicker                         113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The colored illustrations are by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.\u003cbr\u003e The text cuts are from drawings by John L. Ridgway._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE WOODPECKERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD: THE RIDDLERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong ago in Greece, the legend runs, a terrible monster called the\u003cbr\u003eSphinx used to waylay travelers to ask them riddles: whoever could not\u003cbr\u003eanswer these she killed, but the man who did answer them killed her and\u003cbr\u003emade an end of her riddling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo-day there is no Sphinx to fear, yet the world is full of unguessed\u003cbr\u003eriddles. No thoughtful man can go far afield but some bird or flower or\u003cbr\u003estone bars his way with a question demanding an answer; and though many\u003cbr\u003emen have been diligently spelling out the answers for many years, and we\u003cbr\u003efor the most part must study the answers they have proved, and must\u003cbr\u003ereply in their words, yet those shrewd old riddlers, the birds and\u003cbr\u003eflowers and bees, are always ready for a new victim, putting their heads\u003cbr\u003etogether over some new enigma to bar the road to knowledge till that,\u003cbr\u003etoo, shall be answered; so that other men's learning does not always\u003cbr\u003esuffice.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121491886320,"sku":"2940016110875","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016110875","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}