Printed on the plate
“Hairy Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Red-shafted Woodpecker, Lewis' Woodpecker, Red-breasted Woodpecker”
Hairy Woodpecker, 1. Male. 2. Female. | Red-bellied Woodpecker, 3. Male. 4. Female. | Red-shafted Woodpecker, 5. Male. 6. Female. | Lewis' Woodpecker, 7. Male. 8. Female. | Red-breasted Woodpecker, 9. Male. 10. Female.
Modern identification
Figure 1. Male. 2. Female.
Printed “Hairy Woodpecker”
Leuconotopicus villosus
- Certain
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Audubon's “Hairy Woodpecker” (Picus villosus, figs. 1–2) is today's Hairy Woodpecker
Sources
Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org; New-York Historical Society; Wikimedia Commons
Figure 3. Male. 4. Female.
Printed “Red-bellied Woodpecker”
Melanerpes carolinus
- Certain
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Audubon's “Red-bellied Woodpecker” (Picus carolinus, figs. 3–4) is today's Red-bellied Woodpecker
Sources
Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org; New-York Historical Society; Wikimedia Commons; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth)
Figure 5. Male. 6. Female.
Printed “Red-shafted Woodpecker”
Colaptes auratus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Audubon's “Red-shafted Woodpecker” (Picus mexicanus, figs. 5–6) is the Red-shafted form of today's Northern Flicker; the yellow-shafted form is plate 37
Sources
engraved legend; Ridgway, Birds of North and Middle America vi (1914); New-York Historical Society; Wikimedia Commons; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth)
Figure 7. Male. 8. Female.
Printed “Lewis' Woodpecker”
Melanerpes lewis
- Certain
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Audubon's “Lewis' Woodpecker” (Picus torquatus, figs. 7–8) is today's Lewis's Woodpecker
Sources
Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org; New-York Historical Society; Wikimedia Commons; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth)
Figure 9. Male. 10. Female.
Printed “Red-breasted Woodpecker”
Sphyrapicus ruber
- Certain
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Audubon's “Red-breasted Woodpecker” (Picus ruber, figs. 9–10) is today's Red-breasted Sapsucker
Sources
Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org; New-York Historical Society; Wikimedia Commons; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth)
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon. F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved. Printed and Coloured by Robt. Havell. 1838.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
