Printed on the plate
“Heart-spotted Woodpecker”
Hemicercus cordatus
Engraved caption: HEMICERCUS CORDATUS, Jerdon.
Modern identification
Hemicircus canente
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Jerdon's Hemicercus cordatus, the south Indian bird Gould calls a small race of canente = Heart-spotted Woodpecker, Hemicircus canente.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)
Who made the plate
J. Gould & W. Hart del. et lith.Walter imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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