The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . n the head, and the largest of them have the rest of the plumage mostly pied withwhite. Such, in America, are the great Californian Woodpecker (P. imperialis, Gould,) and the Ivory-billed andPileated Woodpeckers, wherein the actual texture of the beak closely resembles ivory; also, the Great BlackWoodpecker of Europe, which is stated to have been sometimes met with in Britain. Others, forming an extremely numerous group, the DendrocopuSy Swainson, differ litt
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . n the head, and the largest of them have the rest of the plumage mostly pied withwhite. Such, in America, are the great Californian Woodpecker (P. imperialis, Gould,) and the Ivory-billed andPileated Woodpeckers, wherein the actual texture of the beak closely resembles ivory; also, the Great BlackWoodpecker of Europe, which is stated to have been sometimes met with in Britain. Others, forming an extremely numerous group, the DendrocopuSy Swainson, differ little but in being smallerand more mottled with white. They inhabit, hke the former, northern or mountain districts, feed much on nutsand acorns, and never descend to the ground. Of four in Europe, two inhabit Britain, the Picus major andP. minor, Auctorum. Some, the j4^fern?^5, Swainson, are destitute of the ordinary hind-toe. There are several species, and one innorthern Europe {/?. tridacti/lus, Lin.) Many of those of tropical climates have full soft crests, and generally bald necks: these constitute the Matacolo-phus, SCANSORES. 213 others have cylindrical or much less angular bills, and smooth firm plumage,—the Mdnnerpes, Swainson, towhich the well-known Red-headed Woodpecker of North America appertains. These are the most fnigivorous ofany, and sometimes feed on the eggs of other birds, even entering Iigeon-houses for that puqose. Their coloursare disposed in large masses. The Green Woodpeckers, or Poppinjays, {Gecinus^ Boie; C/trytoptilut, Swainson,) constitute another subdi-vision, remarkable for the inner emargination of the sternum being much smaller than the outer, and for barredplumage in the young, which corresponds with the adult garb of certain species with slightly arcuated bills, thatcompose the Colaptes, Swainson : these two subdivisions are closely allied together, and the members of tlitmfrequently descend to feed at ant-hills, being exclusively in
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