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Show Strength of a Woodpecker's Bill. The long, stiff tall fathers or ) woodpecker enable tho bird to clin-; to the trunk of n tree In an upright position for a long tlmo nnd bnri awny for food. Tho bill of a wivh'-pecker wivh'-pecker Is often as strong as that rf a bird of prey, and in the woOdcne': of northern Miilno tho bill Is toiinil at Its greatest development. The tonguo much resembles fi angle worm, and Is very long nnd iii-mlrably iii-mlrably adapted for sucking f-i. Sometimes tho tonguo is not. or..-long or..-long and briiBh-llkc, but barbed at lb." point, so that It can lmpalo Its pre-. Tho feet aro adapted for swimming !.i various ways. Worcester Spy. |