Plate LXVI. Male and Female.
Toes very long, fourth longer than third. An occipital crest of
elongated linear feathers; general colour glossy black, with blue
reflections on the upper, green on the lower parts; crest rich
carmine; bristly feathers covering the nostrils, and a short band at
the base of the upper mandible, a band on each side of the neck, from
the cheek to the end of the scapulars, secondary quills, their bases
excepted, and terminal portion of four inner secondaries, with the
axillars and lower wing-coverts, white; bill yellowish-white. Female
similar, but with the crest black, and the lateral tail-feathers, with
two patches of white at the tip.
_Male_, 21, 30. _Female_, 19-1/2, wing 10.
Common in Texas, Louisiana, and along the Mississippi, to the Ohio.
Rare on the latter, to Henderson. From Florida to North Carolina.
Resident.
Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Picus principalis, Wils. Amer. Orn.
v. iv. p. 20.
Picus principalis, Bonap. Syn. p. 44.
Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Picus principalis, Nutt. Man. v. i.
p. 564.
Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Picus principalis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
i. p. 341; v. v. p. 525.