Printed on the plate
“Malayan Pygmy Woodpecker”
Iyngipicus auritus
Engraved caption: IYNGIPICUS AURITUS.
Modern identification
Yungipicus moluccensis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Sharpe's 'auritus' is the Sundaic bird (syn. Picus moluccensis Gmelin, fusco-albidus; Malaya, Java, Sumatra, Borneo), and the plate shows it: brown crown, brown-barred back, streaked underparts. That is the Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker; Eyton's name auritus now belongs to a race of the Gray-capped.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
W. Hart del. et lith.Walter, Imp.
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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