Printed on the plate
“Travancore Pygmy Woodpecker”
Iyngipicus peninsularis
Engraved caption: IYNGIPICUS PENINSULARIS, Hargitt.
Modern identification
Yungipicus nanus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Hargitt's peninsularis of Travancore and Malabar, brown-capped and nearly plain below, belongs to the south-west Indian 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
J. Gould & W. Hart del. et lith.Walter, imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
