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cock of the woods†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the pileated woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus.
See: logcock
Quotations
<i>a</i>1820
I shot one of the large species of woodpeckers, in size rather larger than a carrier pigeon, with a bright scarlet crest, called by the Canadians, "cocks of the wood."
1897
Bluejays do not all stay with us; woodpeckers do. The large red-headed kind, sometimes called the cock-of-the-woods, does.
1954
Through that gap in the hills we will walk to the drumming of partridge and the tattoo of the cock of the woods.