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The Roller-like Birds 



tinged with red. "This grand Woodpecker," says Mr. Blanford, " is a denizen 

 of high forests, and especially of hilly tracts, and is generally seen high up the 

 stems and upper branches of trees, keeping in small parties of from three or 

 four to ten or twelve, and very noisy, often uttering a peculiar querulous call." 

 The entrance to the nest-hole is some three and a half inches in diameter, and 

 the eggs are one and forty-one hundredths by one and eleven hundredths inches 

 in size. 



Black Woodpecker. Quite closely allied to the last are the great Black 

 Woodpeckers (Thriponax] of India, the Malay countries, and thence to the Phil- 

 ippines and Korea, which differ principally in possessing a well-defined nuchal 

 crest. About a dozen species are known, all of large size, and, as the common 

 name indicates, are mainly black in color, though most of them show some white 

 on the body. The Malabar Great Black Woodpecker (T. hodgsoni) is a bird some 

 nineteen inches long, inhabiting the dense evergreen forests of the Malabar coast, 

 and going about in pairs or small parties. 



Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. Of the American representatives of this thin- 

 necked, large-headed group, mention must be made of the splendid Ivory-bills 









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FlG. 174. Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Campephilus principalis. 



