Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume VI, plate 20

Gray-and-buff Woodpecker

Printed “Hartlaub's Spotted Woodpecker”

Volume VI, plate 20 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Gray-and-buff Woodpecker (Hemicircus concretus)
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Printed on the plate

“Hartlaub's Spotted Woodpecker”

Hemicercus Hartlaubi

Engraved caption: HEMICERCUS HARTILAUBI®

Modern identification

Gray-and-buff Woodpecker

Hemicircus concretus

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Woodpeckers · Picidae

Why

Malherbe's hartlaubi, the red-crowned form Gould kept apart from VI.19, is now within the Gray-and-buff Woodpecker.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate

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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