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CHAPTER X.
THE WOODPECKER AND THE
COPPERSMITH.
I Have met with only one species of Woodpecker
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in Bombay, but it is fairly common. To give a description of its colours by which one who did not know it would be likely to recognise it, is not easy; but anybody who has once seen a Woodpecker will know it again, for there is no other bird like it. It does not perch among the branches of