AVES PICID^. 



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gelkmicus, first, I believe, described by Captain King, was only met with 

 at Sandy Point, and that but during our first season ; for as the colony 

 extended, and a considerable amount of timber was in consequence felled, 



Fig. 380. Ipocrantor magellanicus bill, natural size. 



several species of birds became very scarce, probably retiring into the fast- 

 nesses of the forest. Two circumstances specially arrested my attention in 

 the subsequent examination of several specimens of this woodpecker — viz., 



Fig. 381. Ipocrantor magellanicus foot, natural size. 



the enormous quantities of parasitic Anoplura occurring on the feathers, 

 greatly exceeding in number those found on any other birds, with the ex- 

 ception of some of the carrion-feeding hawks ; and the extreme tenacity 

 with which the skin adhered to the muscles of the body, neck, and head, — 



