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A FEATHER OF THE EXTINCT IVORY BILLED WOODPECKER (CAMPEPHILUS PRINCIPALIS)

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A FEATHER OF THE EXTINCT IVORY BILLED WOODPECKER (CAMPEPHILUS PRINCIPALIS)a single tail feather, the bird from the South Eastern United States, believed extinct since 1944, of Natural History interest, in a cardboard display box, together with a certificate of authenticity prepared by Errol Fuller, (no. 30)the feather 4cm in lengthNot seen since 1944 when its last known habitat, owned by the Singer Sewing Company, was logged in northeastern Louisiana.Errol Fuller is the author of the following: Extinct Birds, Oxford University Press, 2000, The Great Auk, Abrams, New York, 1999, Dodo, Harper Collins, 2002,The Passenger Pigeon, Princeton University Press, 2014, Lost Animals, Princeton University Press, 2013.

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A FEATHER OF THE EXTINCT IVORY BILLED WOODPECKER (CAMPEPHILUS PRINCIPALIS)a single tail feather, the bird from the South Eastern United States, believed extinct since 1944, of Natural History interest, in a cardboard display box, together with a certificate of authenticity prepared by Errol Fuller, (no. 30)the feather 4cm in lengthNot seen since 1944 when its last known habitat, owned by the Singer Sewing Company, was logged in northeastern Louisiana.Errol Fuller is the author of the following: Extinct Birds, Oxford University Press, 2000, The Great Auk, Abrams, New York, 1999, Dodo, Harper Collins, 2002,The Passenger Pigeon, Princeton University Press, 2014, Lost Animals, Princeton University Press, 2013.

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