. Illustrations of ornithology . ■ ec/s^i • /u/s/, //,///,,-. ■^tctt^i (Ctu^ei/asritcuj. PICUS MAGELLANICUS, Woodpecker. PLATE CV. Mas. P. niger, cristatus, capite colloque coccineis ; remigibus secondariisque albo no-tatis. Fcem. colore toto, remigibus secondariisque ut in mare ; tectricibus narium, regionemysticali coccineis ; crista, capite colloque nigerrimis. Picus Magellanicus, Fig. Zool. Journ. vol. iii. p. 430. .Length about eighteen inches, and in general size and appearance similarto the Ivory-billed Woodpecker of North America. The bill is very strong,black;

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. Illustrations of ornithology . ■ ec/s^i • /u/s/, //,///,,-. ■^tctt^i (Ctu^ei/asritcuj. PICUS MAGELLANICUS, Woodpecker. PLATE CV. Mas. P. niger, cristatus, capite colloque coccineis ; remigibus secondariisque albo no-tatis. Fcem. colore toto, remigibus secondariisque ut in mare ; tectricibus narium, regionemysticali coccineis ; crista, capite colloque nigerrimis. Picus Magellanicus, Fig. Zool. Journ. vol. iii. p. 430. .Length about eighteen inches, and in general size and appearance similarto the Ivory-billed Woodpecker of North America. The bill is very strong,black; the head crested, and with the neck rich crimson ; feathers on thesides of the neck have a whitish mark about the centre of each, which ishardly perceptible when lying smooth, on the sides they also become moremixed with black, and a slight tinge of red reaches almost to the shoul-ders : the body is entirely black, with the exception of the under wing-co-verts, and the basal half of the quills and secondaries; the white spaceson the base of the quills commence

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