GREAT BLACK WOODPECKER. 



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INSESSORES. 

 SCAN so RES. 



riClDJE. 



THE GREAT BLACK WOODPECKER. 



Picas maitius, Greiit Black IVoinlj. 



Le Pic noir 



•ecker, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 325. 

 Mont. Ornith. Diet. 

 Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 138. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 92. 

 Selby, Brit, Ornith. vol. i. p. 375. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 151. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. i. 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 390, 



Picus. Generic Characters. — Beak about as long as the head, straight, py- 

 ramidal, compressed, pointed. Nostrils basal, oval, open, hid by hair-like 

 feathers directed forwards. Wings moderate ; the first (piill-feather short, the 

 third or fourth the longest in the wing. Feet strong, formed for climbing, with 

 two toes before and two beliiud, rarely with only a single toe behind ; the two 



