PiriD.K — THE \V(y)DPKrKKns. 



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Woodpecker named C. htinll l»y Mr. Cassin, and dilVfiini,' in smaller si/e ; 

 extension of the white eheck-stript! to the mtv hase of tlie hill, and the 

 excess in lenj^th of the ni»{K'r hhick feathurs nf tlie crest over the scarlet. 

 These features appear to 1x5 constant, and characteristic of a local race. 



For the reasons already adduced, we drop (J. imjirrudis from thu list of 

 Xorth American birds, although jrivt-n as sucli hy Auduhon. 



HAniTs. So far as we have information in re^'ard to the j^'eoj^raijliical dis- 

 tribution of the Ivory-l)ilied Woodpecker, it is chicHy lestricted in its range 

 to the extreme Southern States, 

 and especially to those borderin;^ 

 on the Gulf of Mexico. Wilson 

 states that very few, if any, are 

 ever found north of Virginia, 

 and not many even in that State. 

 His first specimen was obtained 

 near Wilmington, N. C. It is 

 not migratory, but is a resident 

 where found. 



Mr. Audubon, who is more 

 full than any other writer in his 

 account of this bird, assigns to it a 

 more extended distribution. He 

 states that in descending the 

 Ohio Iiiver he met with it near 

 the confluence of that river with 

 the Mississippi, and adds that it 

 is frequently met with in follow- 

 ing the windings of the latter 

 river either downwards towards 

 the sea, or upwards in the direc- 

 tion of the Missouri. On the At- 

 lantic he was inclined to make Korth Carolina the limit of its northern 

 distribution, though now and then individuals of the species have been 

 accidentally met with as far north as Maryland. To the westward of the 

 Mississippi he states that it is found in all the dense forests bordering the 

 streams which empty into it, from the ver\' declivities of tlie IJocky Moun- 

 tains. The lower parts of the Carolinas, Georgia, North Florida, Alabama, 

 Louisiana, and Mississippi, are, however, its favorite resorts, and in those 

 States it constantly resides. 



It was observed by Dr. Woodhouse in the timber on the Arkansas Ttiver, 

 and in Eastern Texas, but quite rarely in l)oth places. It was not, however, 

 met with in any other of the government expeditions, either to the Pacific, 

 in the survey of the railroad routes, or in that for the survey of the Mexican 

 boundary line. It is given as a bird of Cuba by De la Sagra, in his catalogue 



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Campfphilus prituipalis. 



