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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



This is well attested by all the naturalists who have been thrown in 

 contact with these birds, and a few extracts are here appended to empha- 

 size this exodus of the birds at widely separate points, all seemingly from 



Fig. 379. Ipocrantor magellanicus , adult female, P. U. O. C. 7758. Head natural size. 



the one cause, as well as to give a further glimpse of the kind of life this 

 woodpecker leads. 



Cunningham,' writing of his experience at Sandy Point in 1866, says: 

 "Two of the party gained a momentary glimpse of a fox in the gorge 

 through which the river, already referred to, flows ; and we saw a pair of 

 large woodpeckers — the plumage of the female of which was black, while 

 the male was provided with a scarlet crest — run spirally up the stem of a 

 tree, tapping the bark as they went. This species, the Campephilus Ma- 



*Nat. Hist. Str. Magell. 1871, p. 81. 



