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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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y its smaller size, and other differences. Wilson, it appears,did not believe in the existence of the Canada Woodpecker, Picus cana-densis; yet his figure of the Hairy Woodpecker seems to me to be arepresentation of that species, while his description belongs in part to both.Those errors have been adopted by all his followers to the present day,gh the specific distinctions between Picus villosus and P. canadensishave been clearly recognised by my young friend Dr. Trttdeatj, who wroteto me from Paris that both species were in the national museum there, andwere looked upon as the same bird. Mr. Swainson, who observed adifference between the birds of the present species received from New Yorkand those of higher northern latitudes, has given an exact description andfigure of the bill of P. canadensis, thinking that he was describing P.villosus of Linnjeus. To this he was probably led by the erroneous accountgiven of the extent of the distribution of this species northward. 2sT? 53. PL 262
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7 - ^^:.:. ^fevii/ r_^ l^(ZS ?^Y 7 /.M • .■. Dramvfrom . Vaiute <ky JJ.Jxulu2ranJ?JiSKLS. HAIRY WOODPECKER. 245 The Hairy Woodpecker, P. villosus, is a constant resident in our mari-time and inland districts, from the Texas, where I have found it numerous,to the State of New Hampshire, as well as in all sufficiently wooded tractsintervening between the junction of the Missouri and Mississippi, and thenorthern borders of our great lakes. But not a single individual of thisspecies could I or my sons procure in the State of Maine, where, however,the larger species, P. canadensis, was quite abundant, and from whence itextends its migrations as far north, according to Dr. Richardson, as thesixty-third parallel. It remains, he continues, all the year in the FurCountries, and is the most common species up to the fifty-sixth degree oflatitude, north of which it yields in frequency to the three-toed species. Lively, noisy, and careless of man, the Hairy Woodpecker is found at allseasons

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