PICUS MAGELLANICUS, Vigors. 

 Magellanic Woodpecker. 



PLATE CV. 



Mas. P. niger, cristatus, capite colloque coccineis ; remigibus secondariisque albo no- 

 tatis. 



Fcem. colore toto, remigibus secondariisque ut in mare ; tectricibus narium, regione 

 mysticali coccineis ; crista, capite colloque nigerrimis. 



Picus Magellanicus, Fig. Zool. Journ. vol. iii. p. 430. 



.Length about eighteen inches, and in general size and appearance similar 

 to the Ivory-billed Woodpecker of North America. The bill is very strong, 

 black ; the head crested, and with the neck rich crimson ; feathers on the 

 sides of the neck have a whitish mark about the centre of each, which is 

 hardly perceptible when lying smooth, on the sides they also become more 

 mixed with black, and a slight tinge of red reaches almost to the shoul- 

 ders : the body is entirely black, with the exception of the under wing-co- 

 verts, and the basal half of the quills and secondaries ; the white spaces 

 on the base of the quills commence on the first by a very small space, and 

 gradually increase in length and breadth, until they reach the three last 

 secondaries, where they extend over the rachis, and occupy about half the 

 exterior web ; on the three or four last there is sometimes a black spot 

 near the tip of the inner web. In some specimens, the lower part of the 

 back and rump and upper tail-coverts were spotted with white. 



The accompanying females were rather less in size, and entirely black, 

 with the exception of the feathers covering the nostrils, and a small part 

 of the forehead, space between the eyes and the bill, chin, and feathers 

 on the sides of the under mandible, these are of a duller crimson than in 

 the male. The parts of the head and neck which are crimson in the 



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