Printed on the plate
“Pryer's Dicaeum”
Diceum Pryeri
Engraved caption: DICÆUM PRYERI, Sharpe.
Modern identification
Dicaeum cruentatum
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Flowerpeckers · Dicaeidae
Why
Dicaeum pryeri Sharpe (Sandakan) = Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker: red crown and back on all three figures. Sharpe himself (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. x: 18) made it an extreme black-throated form of the Bornean race nigrimentum.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. x (1885); Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
W. Hart del. et lith.Walter, imp.
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
