IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER. 
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and their larvie. The plicated woodpecker is 
i^^Pected of sometimes tasting the Indian corn : the 
tj^^'y-hilled never. His common note, repeated every 
or four seconds, very imirh resembles the tone 
[iL.* trumpet, or the high note of a clarionet, and can 
Pe distiugnislied at the distance of more than 
^ mile ; seeming to he immediately at hand, though 
more than one hundred yards off. This it 
while mounting along the trunk or digging into 
, At these times it has a stately and novel appearance ; 
the note instantly attracts the notice of a stranger, 
the borders of the Savannah river, between 
C^nnah and Augusta, I found them very frequently; 
n tOy horse no sooner heard their trumpet-like note, 
. rememberiuff his former alarm, he became almost 
^^veruable. * • n i 
taH'e ivory-billed woodpecker is twenty inches long, 
1)1 '‘ thirty inches in extent; the general colour is 
to with a considerable gloss of green n licn exposed 
to* good light; iris of the eye, vivid yellow; nostrils, 
lio ':‘'ed with recumbent white hairs ; tore part of the 
Up *'*> black ; rest of Ihe crest of a most splendid red, 
1v|, ®'t at the bottom with white, which is only seen 
the crest is erected ; this long red plumage being 
ip |'®'.>lonred at its base, above that white, and ending 
Poii^lliant red; a stripe of white proceeds from a 
(ip.p about half an inch below each eye, passes down 
Ufo \'‘''te of tlie neck, and along the back, where they 
6;. *®Out aiiart, nearly to the rump ; the first 
li],;,P‘'’maries are wholly black ; on the next five the 
spreads from the tip higher and higher to the 
C, ‘"^“'■ies which are wholly white from their coverts 
sL^'vard. These niai-kiiigs, when the wings are 
hp, ‘ make the bird appear as if his back were white ; 
lias been called by some of our naturalists the 
Wai? woodpeckoi'. The neck is long’ ; the 
hu at the base, of the colour and con- 
of ivory, prodigiously strong and elegantly 
'*• The tail is black, tapering from the two exte- 
