Printed on the plate
“Vigors's Pygmy Woodpecker”
Iyngipicus nanus
Engraved caption: IYNGIPICUS NANUS®
Modern identification
Yungipicus nanus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Woodpeckers · Picidae
Why
Vigors's Picus nanus, as Hargitt identified it = Brown-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.
