Printed on the plate
“Bay Owl”
Phodilus badius
Engraved caption: PHODILUS BADIUS.
Modern identification
Phodilus badius
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Barn-Owls · Tytonidae
Why
Strix badia Horsfield (Java) = Phodilus badius, Oriental Bay-Owl; same species, ranging in Gould's text from Nepal to Java, so not the Sri Lanka Bay-Owl.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)
Who made the plate
J. Gould & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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