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Ivory-billed Woodpecker. 



While it is probable that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker does not 

 occur in Illinois at the present time, it was once not uncommon in the 

 heavily timbered regions of the southern part of the state. 

 Audubon found it along the Ohio River near its junction with the 

 Mississippi, during the early part of the last century and mentions 

 its breeding in Indiana and Kentucky. 



Prof. Ridgway states (Birds of Illinois, 1889, p. 375): "The writer 

 has a distinct recollection of what he believes to have been this 

 species in White County, some 40 miles south of Mount Carmel,(Ill.), 

 but never observed it in the vicinity of the latter place." Mr. Otto 

 Widmann states that a male bird of this species was killed near 

 Morley, Scott Co., Missouri, Xov. 8, 1895. (Birds of Missouri, 

 1907, p. 119.) 



