dryness (drines)

[Formerly also drine ; IMG:content-0044.jpg:[merged small][graphic] Great Black Woodpecker ( Dryocopus martius). woodpecker of Europe, Dryocopus martius, is the type. This bird is one of the largest of its tribe, black with a scarlet crest, and resembles somewhat the ivory-billed and pileated woodpeckers of the United States. It inhabits northerly portions of Europe. Boie, 1826. 2. A genus of South American tree-creepers. Also Dendrocincla. Maximilian, 1831.