Ivory-billed Woodpecker, <i>Campephilus principalis</i> on Water Oak, <i>Quercus phellos</i>. Hand-colored engraving. Original caption (cropped off here) reads: Picus Maximus rostro albo: The largest white-bill Wood-pecker; Quercus, an potius Ilex Marilandica folio longo angusto Salicis. Ray Hist: The Willow-Oak
Catesby, Mark (1683-1749), and Edwards, George (1694-1773)
1754
<i>The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands</i>, volume 1, tab 16