Chrysocolaptes Erythrocephalus (Fig. 1) [Crimson-backed Woodpecker] C. maculiceps (Fig. 2) pl.46

Description

original colour lithograph.

RARE ornithological print from ‘On the Birds collected by Prof. J.B. Steere in the Philippine Archipelago’, pl. 46 by Richard Bowdler Sharpe after J.G. Keulemans; Fig. 1 is a rather rare forest species, shy & wary. There are many other races in the Phils., Malaysia, Indochina & India. Fig. 2 is another subspecies found in Basilan.