Printed on the plate
“Ceylonese Pygmy Woodpecker”
Iyngipicus gymnophthalmus
Engraved caption: TYNGIPICUS CYMNOPHTHALMUS.
Modern identification
Yungipicus nanus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Blyth's gymnophthalmos of Ceylon, plain below with a blackish cap, is the Sri Lankan race of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker.
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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
