The birds of Europe (1837) (14565566647)

Identifier: birdsEuropeIIIGoul (find matches)

Title: The birds of Europe

Year: 1837 (1830s)

Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881

Subjects: Pictorial works Birds

Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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^EEE TOEB WOOBPICKEB:Picus tridactylus. /Iji/omj. ....: 07& & (/tostewhjf&jL.GmiZd/. li-cruc-U ey ... . THREE-TOED WOODPECKER. Picus tridactylus, Linn.Apternus tridactylus, Swains.Le Pic tridactyle. Mr. Svvainson has applied the generic term Apternus to this Three-toed Woodpecker; and we refer the readerto the second volume of the North American Zoology, page 301, for a full explanation of the views of thescientific author in his systematic arrangement of this most extensive and characteristic family. The principaldistinguishing feature of this genus is the absence of the hind-toe; a deficiency, however, which does notoccasion any very material difference in the habits of the bird before us, which bear a close resemblance tothose of the typical group. The present species is by no means uncommon in the northern parts of the European Continent, the vastforests of the mountainous parts of Norway, Sweden, Russia and Siberia, forming its principal habitat; it isalso found among

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