. Bird guide . Texas to Arizona. IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER. 392. Campephiluo principalis. 20 inches. Male witli a scarlet crest, female with a black one. These are the largest and most rare of the Woodpeck-ers found within our borders. Their decline in numbersis due, to a certain extent, to the killing of them becauseof their size and beauty, but chieHy on account of cuttingoff of a great deal of the heavy timber where they are very powerful birds and often scale the barkoff the greater portion of a tree in their search for in-sects and grubs, while they will bore into the heart of ali
. Bird guide . Texas to Arizona. IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER. 392. Campephiluo principalis. 20 inches. Male witli a scarlet crest, female with a black one. These are the largest and most rare of the Woodpeck-ers found within our borders. Their decline in numbersis due, to a certain extent, to the killing of them becauseof their size and beauty, but chieHy on account of cuttingoff of a great deal of the heavy timber where they are very powerful birds and often scale the barkoff the greater portion of a tree in their search for in-sects and grubs, while they will bore into the heart of aliving tree to make their home. Note.—^A shrill two-syllabled shriek or whistle. Nest.—In holes of large trees in impenetrable the chips at the bottom of the cavity, they lay fromthree to six glossy, pure white eggs { x ). Range.—Formerly the South Atlantic States and westto Texas and Indian Territory, but now confined to a fewisolated portions of Florida and, possibly, Indian
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