WORKS. OF A wooDpEcKER.
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James Wa, Esq. of Bedford, Ms. has left in our office sample of the labors Of thoe Red-keGded ,WoOdpecker, (Pieus crythrOcephaiMs) which exhibits 8 curious specimen of the power and industry of that little animal. This consists of the branci. of young tough white oak, between 5 and 6 inches in diameter, perforated to its centre by the bill of the bird. The hole is~as neat and well defined as could

 have been moriised by maIlet and chisel.

 The object of the woodpecker. in this per- formsnce, was, evidently, the attainment of worm, probably one of the speciessof the Borer which 90 often attack the ap- pie tree. The worm had made hole in the branch about sfhe sizerof goo1e quill, 4 or 5 inches below the place gouged out by the bird, and was proceeding upwards when the woodpecker broke in upon and deyourcd the derredatOr. That this little despised workman, viz. the red-headed woodpecker. with his head for mnllet and his hill for a chisel, should make such a perforation is more wonderful than the structure of ths Pyramids or the Pantheon.