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Ficus tridactylus, Linn. Syst. I, ,p. 177« Sp. £*.-• Gmbe. Sy#, B p* 439,$p. 51- Faun.
*■'. .•>.08.' jjgè(. Holm. ]7|Qfp. 222. Pftil Trans. LXII, p. 388. Scot. Ann.
I, Spioö. GscteGi/jßeise, p. f65. Borowsk, Nat. ft, p. yéo.psp.* 8. Lath. ïnd.
p. S4&, Meter '& OÉ&ki ’Trièch.’Deu/tpch. $ % . V Ï f ï % , *l3&shi.
Ma. lj|p:401;' ytmfë. BbJbhm, Lehr. Eur. F&g. \ p. MS. | Ranz. Eiern.
Om. H, p. ’ESlj.SpilöfrTab. 7i, Mg. 4.
Ficus hirsyfus, Yie£ll. Oig. Jim. Sept. II, p.- 68, PI. 124, adult mal§.
Picoides, La£EPEde.
Dendrocopos tridactylus, Koch, Baierische Zool -
TricËctylia hirmta, Stephens, in Shaw’s Zool IX, p~. 219.
Ptcus tridactylus anomalus, Mits. Petr. 368. 3'
Picehio a tre dita, Stor. degli Ucc. H, PI. 180. •
Pic tridadyle, ou Pieoide, Temm. /. eC
Dreizehiger Specht, Bechst. Nat. Deutsch,!. H, p. 1P4$v NXusjt. ■Vö.g.N^chtr. PI. 41,
Fig. 81. Meybb & Woep, OÏs. d’Allem. Cah. 26, PI. 4, saaie,; jPl. 6, female.
Northern Three-toed Woodpecker, Edwards, PI. 114, male. ’
Three-toed Woodpecker, Pehn. Arct. Zool. Sp. 1'W. Lath. Syn. II, p.^OO^p; dl.
Id. Suppl. p. 112.
Philadelphia Museum, Male.
My Collection, Male, Female, and young-.
| T his spcpjes is one of those, which from theirhabitation being
in the extreme north, have a wide: range round th e globe. * Lfefis
in fact met with throughout northern Asia and Europe, from
Kagat^ihatka to the most eastern^oasts of the cfid continent;
and in America, is; v.ery comm op at Hudson’s Ray, Severn River,
Tort William ok Lake-Superior, and throughout the nprth-west,
in *hilly -and- ^oofed^traefts .^hHHê^hWed States ‘ itris^dfify-a rare
and occ^’sfölÈEi wixfbèr visS*fêiiït, néY^r"having Beemffecei^êd ‘by us
dfcept^fronrithe northern 'territory 'óf the^st'ate^pf- Mairte. 1 The
^peci'es.y'cóntrary tow h a t is observed' didst other Arctic birds,
doeé^rfot ’ appear to ïiÈSstferiS^st»*far apmp'aratively a s .in
EurOpey though it^feriiot improbable that on this-‘continent it may
also" ihhabit^èSifê unexplored' möuntiifibus^WSMSfs', 'f-e'sèmbling
the wild^regiphs'pwné^p, omy it is found in Europe. «In Both
continentsjitBe-species .affects ^d^p^foresfs among mountains, tpe
hilly #®3Bint'riesBe^. noptherar Asia and Europe, and the Yepy.lofty
chains off central Europe, whose1- elevation compensates itfor thfeif
more- southern latitude. It fë^ëxBeé’din^ly "éBm^r^óh, in: Siberia,
is abundant in" N o rw ay Lapland anl^-DaleCarlia, among the
gorges*-df Switzerland and the Tyr'ol, especially in "foists,.; of
pines.sywit -is not uncommon'in the canton;of Berne, in jjhe'.forestfe
near Interlaken, though very « a re in Germany and the more
temperate - parts of -Europe. It is well known evémto b re ed ip
Switzerland, and deposits, in holTB#'formed in-'pine-tfees/’four ‘o f
#ye- ««eggs Of a brilliant whiteness; its jYbiee^ and habits 'ape
precisely the same a® fthos,e of the sppttpdpiWoodpeckers. Its
food consists of-insects and their larvse and eggs, and sometimes
sëeds and - béi&ÉÉk: It is easily’decoyedaby imitating*its'voice. £È|
This species is* eminently** distinguished among the North
American and European Woodpeckers, by having - oitl-y three
toes, the inner h in d 1 toe-being wanting; ^Besides which it has
other striking peculiaritiesyits bill being remarkably broad, and
flattened, and its töf sPfcdvéfed with TiöktheM half their-length :
the tongue is moreover n ot cylindrical but flat and serrated!,, at
the^point, which " conformation Vre have however observed in the
three -European^spotted Woodpeckers, «and American
Pious varius, tilliMs, pübeècens, and quetulus. In all -these species
vox. n.—r