Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume VI, plate 19

Gray-and-buff Woodpecker

Printed “Javan Spotted Woodpecker”

Volume VI, plate 19 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Gray-and-buff Woodpecker (Hemicircus concretus)
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Printed on the plate

“Javan Spotted Woodpecker”

Hemicercus concretus

Engraved caption: HEMICEROUS CONCRETUS.

Modern identification

Gray-and-buff Woodpecker

Hemicircus concretus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Woodpeckers · Picidae

Why

Temminck's Picus concretus of Java = Gray-and-buff Woodpecker, Hemicircus concretus, nominate race.

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.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

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