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PICUS MARTIUS. THE GREAT BLACK 

 WOODPECKER. 



Fig. 202. 



Picus martius. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 17.3. 



Picus martius. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 224. 



Great Black Woodpecker. Mont. Orn. Diet, 



Pic uoir. Picus martius. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 390. 



Great Black Woodpecker. Picus martius. Selb. Illustr. I. 375. 



Picus martius. Great Black Wood^iecker. Jen. Brit. Yert. An. 151. 



Plumage hroicnish-hlacJc ; the male with the upper part of the 

 head, the female xcith onhj the occiput, crimson. 



Male. — The Great Black Woodpecker is one of the largest 

 species of the genus, being about equal in size to the Ivory- 

 billed, Picus principalis, of America. Its body is moderately 

 full, the neck slender, the head rather large, oblong, and com- 

 pressed. The bill is somewhat longer than the head, straight, 

 strong, broader than high at the base, tapering, heptagonal, 

 compressed toward the tip, which is cuneate and vertically ab- 

 rupt. The upper mandible has the dorsal line almost perfectly 



