Editing Northern flicker (section)

==Taxonomy==
[[File:Northern flicker, Roslyn (cropped).jpg|thumb|Male on the ground, in New York|left]]
The English naturalist [[Mark Catesby]] described and illustrated the northern flicker in his book ''The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands'' which was published between 1729 and 1732. Catesby used the English name "Gold-winged Wood-pecker" and the Latin ''{{Lang|la|Picus major alis aureis}}''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Catesby  | first=Mark | author-link=Mark Catesby | year=1729–1732 | title=The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands | volume=1 | place=London | publisher=W. Innys and R. Manby | page=18, Plate 18 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40753170 }}</ref> When in 1758 the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] updated his ''[[Systema Naturae]]'' for the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]], he included the northern flicker, coined the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Cuculus auratus'' and cited Catesby's book.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=112 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | place=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=la | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727017 }}</ref> 

The specific epithet {{Lang|la|auratus}} is a Latin word meaning "gilded" or "ornamented with gold".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=61 }}</ref> The [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] is [[South Carolina]].<ref>{{cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1948 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=6 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=102 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14477535 }}</ref> The northern flicker is one of 13 extant [[New World]] woodpeckers now placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Colaptes]]'' that was introduced by the Irish zoologist [[Nicholas Aylward Vigors]] in 1825 with the northern flicker (''Colaptes auratus'') as the [[type species]].<ref>{{cite journal | last=Vigors | first=Nicholas Aylward | author-link=Nicholas Aylward Vigors | year=1825 | title=Observations on the natural affinities that connect the orders and families of birds | journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London | volume=14 | issue=3 | pages=395–517 | doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1823.tb00098.x | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/752835 }}</ref>