IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER .—CampepMlus principalis. 
Although not the largest of the Woodpecker tribe, the Ivory-billed 
Woodpecker, of North America, is perhaps the handsomest and most striking, 
in appearance. 
This splendid bird is armed with a tremendous beak, long, powerful, sharp, 
and white os ivory, which can be used equally as an instrument for obtaining its 
food, or as a weapon for repelling the attacks of its enemies, and, in the latter 
point of view, is a truly formidable arm* 
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