March 4, 1911.] 
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IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKERS. 
It is a pleasant life that Graham Burnham 
has led for many years in Oklahoma. Burn¬ 
ham is an Indian with a white skin. A long 
time ago he built a hunting lodge of big logs 
down on the Little River and “denned up” to 
enjoy the delights of the wilderness. 
No day passes in lawful season without find¬ 
ing game hanging from the rafters of the Burn¬ 
ham smokehouse. He knows more about hunt¬ 
ing places than any other man in Oklahoma. 
The honk of wild geese will wake him at mid¬ 
night and the hum of wild bees will rouse him 
at the sleepiest noon and lead him to the woods 
and the honey hole in the tall sycamore. 
It is doubtful if anybody knows more about 
the fauna of Oklahoma than Burnham. He is 
acquainted with the haunts of all the furred and 
the feathered dwellers of the forest, and keeps 
his eyes open for such strangers as wander to 
this latitude. Perhaps his most pleasing dis¬ 
covery last fall was a pair of ivory-billed wood¬ 
peckers, a male and a female, which he mounted 
and sent to the Bureau of Biology in Wash¬ 
ington. 
“The ivory-billed woodpecker, Campehilus 
principalis,” says Burnham, “is the largest type 
of the woodpecker species in the world. It is 
twenty inches long and of beautiful black and 
white and red plumage. Formerly quite com¬ 
mon over the Gulf States, it is now found only 
in eastern Oklahoma and in remote portions of 
Florida. 
“A brilliant crimson crest adorns its head. 
Its note is a two-syllabled shriek or squawk, 
sometimes resembling the screech of the do¬ 
mestic hen, hence the frequent name of ‘squaw 
hen.’ Another commonly accepted name for the 
bird is woodcock, which is again a misnomer, 
as the woodcock is an entirely different bird, 
more on the plover or snipe order, a night 
feeder and ground dweller. 
“The ivory-billed woodpecker is much more 
destructive to trees than the common wood¬ 
pecker, as he is greater in size. He not only 
strips dead trunks of bark, but invariably bores 
a hole in a solid live tree for his nest, in which 
from three to six glossy white eggs, about an 
inch and a half long, are hatched. The bird is 
very wary, but bids fair to early extermina¬ 
tion.”—The Sun. 
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