of pure fresh water. So long as a supply of living
ants is to be procured the best way of feeding these
birds is to put a shovelfull of the ants’-hill into their
cage; but they may gradually be “ trained off ” till
they will feed readily on chopped meat, raisins, carrots,
nuts, and soft fruit. All the Woodpeckers that I have
kept in captivity invariably roosted at night by clinging
upright to a bough or to the bars of their abode.
