Printed on the plate
“Grey-headed Pygmy Woodpecker”
Iyngipicus canicapillus
Engraved caption: IYNGIPICUS CANICAPILLUS.
Modern identification
Yungipicus canicapillus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Blyth's Picus canicapillus = Gray-capped Pygmy Woodpecker, nominate race, now in Yungipicus.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)
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.
