The 'largest white-bill wood-pecker' and the 'willow oak' mb-code 1237476 'O Rare Shon'

'O Rare Shon'

Monday 18th August 1969

Plate from the book Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-6 in H

14 miles south of Plymouth

showing the entrance in Old Broad Street

The 'largest white-bill wood-pecker' and the 'willow oak' mb-code 1237476 'O Rare Shon''Picus maximus rostro albo', the largest white bill wood pecker, perched on the trunk of 'Quercus anpotius', the willow oak (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Campephilus principalis, the ivory billed woodpecker; Quercus phellos, the willow oak). This bird species is now listed as 'definitely or probably extinct' by the American Birding Association. Plate 16 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama