Printed on the plate
“Formosan Spotted Woodpecker”
Picus insularis
Engraved caption: PICUS INSULARIS Gould
Modern identification
Dendrocopos leucotos
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Picus insularis Gould, from Formosa, is Dendrocopos leucotos insularis, the Taiwan White-backed Woodpecker: Gould and Swinhoe compare it with P. leuconotus, and the plate shows the male's red crown, white-barred lower back and streaked flanks, with no white shoulder patch. The survey's Great Spotted Woodpecker is wrong.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
