Robbins & Easterla:
Index--Woodpecker, Ivory-billed   p.16
p. 16 contains table 1.
Species that have declined in Missouri since 1900 due to man's
alteration of their primary breeding habitat.

Ivory-billed Woodpecker appears under the heading of Deciduous Woodland
and Bottomland/Riparian Forest with an asterisk indicating "once had
their primary breeding range restricted to riparian areas in the
Mississippi Lowlands."

On p. 204 (not in index)
The 8 May 1886 specimen (a female) "near Forest Park, St. Louis (DMNH
27343)" is listed.
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 12:07 PM, Randy Korotev wrote:

> Now that I've got your attention....
>
> In the Denver Museum of Natural History there is a skin of a female
> Ivory-billed Woodpecker that was collected near Forest Park (St. Louis)
> on
> May 8, 1886.  At least that is the info that I have from "Birds of the
> St.
> Louis Area..."  If anybody has Robbins & Easterla at their fingertips
> and
> that info is wrong, let me know.
>
> Here are 2 photos:
>
> http://artsci.wustl.edu/~rlkorote/photos/rlk_ivorybill.jpg
> http://artsci.wustl.edu/~rlkorote/photos/rlk_ivorybill2.jpg
>
> I obtained the photos from Dan Kassebaum (below).  I'm a bit confused by
> Dan's message because the skin in the photos above looks like that of a
> female to me (no red malar stripe).
>
> Randy Korotev
> St. Louis
>
>> Reply-To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: "'Randy Korotev'" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Forest Park Ivory-bill pics
>> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:32:29 -0500
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>> X-MS-Attachment: ivorybill.jpg 0 00-00-1980 00:00
>> X-MS-Attachment: ivorybill2.jpg 0 00-00-1980 00:00
>>
>> Hi Randy,
>>
>> I acquired two photos of the skin of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
>> collected in Forest Park way back when. Al Seppi got them from Terry
>> O'Neil
>> who had photographed the bird at the Denver Museum of Natural History.
>> The set
>> of photos also included the skin of a female, but there was no
>> indication
>> as to where
>> the female was collected. I suspect the Missouri Records Committee
>> would
>> have some
>> interest in the photos. If the Committee would prefer the actual
>> prints,
>> they're welcome
>> to have them.
>>
>> Dan Kassebaum
>
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