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NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS. 



from Europe to northern Japan, — Mack all over, with a crimson cap. Linnaeus, indeed, 

 dedicated this bird to Mars, the Roman god of warfare; but the evidence seems to show 

 that this was not tlic woodjiccker wliicli tlie old augurs regarded as Pious, of whom 

 the Roman mythology fabled that he was changed into a woodpecker by Circe when she 

 found that her love for him was not requited, but was possessed by Pomona. In the 





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Fig. 216. — Campephilus prineipniii, ivory-billed woo<lpcckor. 



Oriental region are found several nearly .allied forms ; for instance, D. lettcogastcr 

 from Jav.a, which has the abdomen white and the sides of head and throat striped 

 witli the same color. Messrs. Motley and Dilhvyn give the following interesting 

 account of its ii.abits: — 



" These birds are not uncommon in L.abuan, .and frequently fly in small parties of 

 six or eight. They much frequent dead trees whose bark is just beginning to fall, 



