pileated

How to use pileated in a sentence

• The log-cock, or pileated woodpecker, the largest and wildest of our Northern species, I have never heard drum.

  A Year in the Fields | John Burroughs

• Only the creepers and the great pileated woodpeckers seemed to inhabit these truly cloistral shades.

  The Rules of the Game | Stewart Edward White

• Strangely enough the pileated's notes resemble those of the Flicker but are louder.

  What Bird is That? | Frank M. Chapman

• In both sexes the eye is yellow, and the feathers of the crown pileated to form a crest.

  Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) | P. L. Sclater

• Each pileated piece of the skeleton has four equal, cruciate, triangular meshes.

  Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index | Ernst Haeckel