Printed on the plate
“Chinese Spotted Woodpecker”
Picus Cabanisi
Engraved caption: PICUS CABANISI, Malh.
Modern identification
Dendrocopos major
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Picus cabanisi Malherbe, from China, is D. major cabanisi, the south Chinese race of Great Spotted Woodpecker.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton. Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
