The Skull of a Woodpecker

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“Side view of a woodpecker’s skull, showing the long slender basihyal (bh), bearing slight elements at its fore end, no uroyhal, and extraordinarily long thyrohyals (cbr, ebr) curving up over back of skull and curling together around orbit of the right eye.” Elliot Coues, 1884

Keywords

birds, ornithology, bird anatomy, picus, Basihyal, bird bones, bird skull, North American birds, woodpecker's skull, thyrohyals, internal parts of a bird

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Source

Elliot Coues Key to North American Birds (Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1884)

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