Printed on the plate
“Negros Yellow-faced Woodpecker”
Chrysocolaptes xanthocephalus
Engraved caption: CHRYSOCOLAPTES XANTHOCEPHALUS, Walden.
Modern identification
Chrysocolaptes xanthocephalus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Walden and Layard's xanthocephalus of Negros = Yellow-faced Flameback, split from the Greater Flameback group: yellow face, red crown in the male, crimson back.
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.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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