Definitions
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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Picidae — theflickers .
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Examples
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Bird (II), for those interested, is a Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus ).
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Your hapless bird is likely Colaptes auratus auratus the yellow-shafted race of the Northern Flicker.
Whites Ferry AYDIN 2008
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Naturalists call it _Colaptes auratus_, but name it as you may, this bird of many aliases is well worthy of the esteem in which it is held.
The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson
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De Saussure, a Swiss naturalist, published in the _Bibliotheque Universelle_, of Geneva, entertaining accounts of the Mexican Colaptes, a variety of the familiar "high hold," or golden winged woodpecker.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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On the plains of La Plata, where hardly a tree grows, there is a woodpecker (Colaptes campestris) which has two toes before and two behind, a long pointed tongue, pointed tail-feathers, sufficiently stiff to support the bird in a vertical position on a post, but not so stiff as in the typical woodpeckers, and a straight strong beak.
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Hence this Colaptes in all the essential parts of its structure is a woodpecker.
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I may mention as another illustration of the varied habits of this genus, that a Mexican Colaptes has been described by De Saussure as boring holes into hard wood in order to lay up a store of acorns.
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The red-shafted lark-woodpecker is Colaptes mexicanus.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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_Colaptes_, a genus of Woodpeckers in North America, of which a detailed study was published in the _Bull.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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THE GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER, (_Colaptes auratus_), is the largest and handsomest of all the woodpeckers that we really see in evidence.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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