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A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States.

Pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of measels, or resembling the eruptions of that disease; measly.

rd of the genus Anastomus, allied to the stork; -- so called because the two parts of the bill touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open- beak. See Illust. (m), under Beak.

The glory pea. See under Glory.

A printed programme of a play, with the parts assigned to the actors.

A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix.

The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup.

An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials. [Polit. Cant, U. S.]

The curlew.

The merganser. [Prov. Eng.]

See Skimmer.

The black skimmer. See Skimmer.

Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidæ, native of the islands of the Antarctic.seas.

iceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of Beak.

The shoveler.

enus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer.

An Old World finch of the genus Minia, as the M. Malabarica of India, and M. cantans of Africa.

A plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings.

The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).

The hooded merganser.