The 'largest white-bill wood-pecker' and the 'willow oak' mb-code 1239588 West end of the Church

West end of the Church of St Edmund the King

figures at the viewing stations and a painter in a cradle

a woman stands in a room reading a letter

carriages and figures

driven by Vic Board

The 'largest white-bill wood-pecker' and the 'willow oak' mb-code 1239588 West end of the Church'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