THE WOODPECKERS 



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disproportionately large. Common to both Hemispheres, one genus 



I ! of the group occurs in Celebes, and is thus the most eastern represent- 

 Woodpeckers 



ative of the entire family. The group likewise includes the largest 



members of the assemblage, the great gray Malayan woodpecker (Hemilophus pul- 



IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER. 

 (One-half natural size.) 



verulentus) being upward of eighteen inches in length. The ivory-billed wood- 

 pecker ( Campophilus principalis} , which is the typical representative of the genus 

 under consideration, is now only met with in the coast country of Florida and the 

 Gulf States of North America, although some half century ago it had a much more 

 extended range, reaching to parts of the Southern and Central States. It appears 



