This is a handcolored lithograph of an Imperial Woodpecker from the book, Das Buch der Welt.
The book was published by,
Hoffmann'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung“ in Stuttgart/Germany, 1866. The artist is E. Hochdanz who was a
prominent natural history illustrator of the time.
Other birds in the
illustration are the: Northern Flicker (yellow shafted flicker, or Yellowhammer
if you’re from Alabama), Female red-naped Sapsucker, as the red on the forehead
extends to the bill. This could
possibly be a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker as illustration of this era lack
accuracy, and Lewis’s Woodpecker. I am extremely happy to add this to my
collection of Ivory-bill art!
