Printed on the plate
“Indian Wryneck”
Yunx Indica
Engraved caption: YUNX- INNDICA: Gould
Modern identification
Jynx ruficollis
- Judged
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Gould's Yunx indica has a chestnut-red throat patch and he likens it to Y. pectoralis of South Africa; the plate shows that patch on both birds, which no Eurasian Wryneck has, so it is a Red-throated Wryneck. Its Asian origin is unproven: Gould only believed the skin came from Afghanistan or Tibet.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
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
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