Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume VI, plate 23

Gray-capped Pygmy Woodpecker

Printed “Orange-breasted PyzmyWoodpecker”

Volume VI, plate 23 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Gray-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Yungipicus canicapillus)
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Printed on the plate

“Orange-breasted PyzmyWoodpecker”

Iyngipicus aurantiiventris

Engraved caption: IYNGIPICUS AURANTUVENTRIS.

Modern identification

Gray-capped Pygmy Woodpecker

Yungipicus canicapillus

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Woodpeckers · Picidae

Why

Salvadori's aurantiiventris is the Bornean race of the Gray-capped Pygmy Woodpecker: grey crown, red occipital streak, orange-washed belly.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate

Who made the plate

J. Gould & W. Hart, del et lith.Walter, Imp.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

The same bird on other plates