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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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ir found at Toronto, Upper Canada. Adult Male. Bill about the length of the head, straight, strong, angular, compressedtoward the tip, which, however, is not truncate, but very slightly cuneate orworn on the sides. With this exception it is very similar to that of Picusvillosus and P. canadensis. Upper mandible with the dorsal line almoststraight, being very slightly convex, the ridge very narrow, the sides slopingand fiat, or slightly concave, the lateral angle or ridge about half-way at itscommencement between the ridge and the margin, but in its course graduallyapproximating the latter, and ending upon it about a fourth from the tip,edges sharp, direct, overlapping, tip rather acute. Lower mandible with theangle short and rather wide, the crural line a little concave, the dorsalascending and slightly convex, the ridge narrow, the sides convex, theedges sharp and inclinate, the tip narrow. Nostrils oblong, basal, concealedby the feathers, and placed near the margin. XV 5 2. PL 26 0.
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7. Male. 2Female. £lia,.;i from .Afii^c by JJJ(u*i,j£o,i.FlLS.FI,S ClMP, ■uil.:t <k Co/^lyJ T.SowonThU MARIAS WOODPECKER. 241 Head large, ovate; neck rather short; body full. Feet very short; tarsusshort, compressed, feathered anteriorly about half-way down, with fivelarge scutella in the rest of its extent, scaly and sharp-edged behind; toesfour; first small and stout; fourth longest and directed backwards; secondand third toe united at the base; all scutellate above. Claws large, muchcurved, compressed, laterally grooved, very acute. Plumage very soft, full, and blended. A large tuft of reversed stiffishfeathers on each side of the base of the upper mandible, concealing thenostrils; the feathers in the angle of the lower mandible also stiffish,elongated and directed forwards. Wings rather long; the first quill verysmall, being only an inch and five-twelfths long, the second half an inchshorter than the third, which is half a twelfth shorter than the fourth, thelatter being th

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