RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER (PLATE CCCLXXXIX)

Picoides borealis JW 37 a slight tape stain in the lower bottom edge, a very slight crease in the top right margin corner 19 3/8 by 12 1/8 in.; 493 by 309 mm. Based on a composition painted at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana on July 29, 1821. Audubon wrote of a captured specimen:"... I put it into a cage, every part of which it examined, until finding a spot by which it thought it might escape, it began to work there, and soon made the chips fly off. In a few minutes, it made its way out...