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Picus
In
Greek
and
Roman
mythology,
Picus
was a man turned into a
woodpecker
by
Circe
for scorning her love. His wife was
Canens
, a
nymph
, who killed herself after he was transformed. They had one son,
Faunus
.
Picus
is also a genus of
woodpecker
.
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