Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13081

    Black-headed woodpecker

    Date
    1865
    Creator
    J Huet (French) , Lithographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN8171
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 294mm
    width (print): 225mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Ornithological study of the Black-headed woodpecker, Picus erythropygius, shown clinging to a low tree trunk. The bird is native to Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.

    Plate 3 accompanying the paper ‘Rapport sur quelques acquisitions nouvelles faites par la galerie ornithologique du muséum’, by Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Nouvelles archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.1 (Paris, 1865); Bulletin pp.75-78.

    Inscribed above: ‘Nouvelles archives du Muséum. Bulletin Tome 1. Pl.III.’ Inscribed below ‘PICUS ERYTHROPYGIUS Elliot. J.Huet pinxt. et lith. Imp. Becquet, Paris.’

    Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) French mammalogist and ornithologist.

    Associated place
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          > France
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