. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . 77 PICUS MARTIUS. THE GREAT Fig. 202. Picus martius. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. Picus martius. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 224. Great Black Woodpecker. Mont. Orn. Diet, Pic uoir. Picus martius. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 390. Great Black Woodpecker. Picus martius. Selb. Illustr. I. 375. Picus martius. Great Black Wood^iecker. Jen. Brit. Yert.
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . 77 PICUS MARTIUS. THE GREAT Fig. 202. Picus martius. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. Picus martius. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 224. Great Black Woodpecker. Mont. Orn. Diet, Pic uoir. Picus martius. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 390. Great Black Woodpecker. Picus martius. Selb. Illustr. I. 375. Picus martius. Great Black Wood^iecker. Jen. Brit. Yert. An. 151. Plumage hroicnish-hlacJc; the male with the upper part of thehead, the female xcith onhj the occiput, crimson. Male.—The Great Black Woodpecker is one of the largestspecies of the genus, being about equal in size to the Ivory-billed, Picus principalis, of America. Its body is moderatelyfull, the neck slender, the head rather large, oblong, and com-pressed. The bill is somewhat longer than the head, straight,strong, broader than high at the base, tapering, heptagonal,compressed toward the tip, which is cuneate and vertically ab-rupt. The upper mandible has the dorsal line almost perfectly 78 PICUS MARTIUS. straight, the ridge sharp, the slope concave to the lateral ridges,which ar
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