Printed on the plate
“Brodie's Owlet”
Athene Brodiei
Engraved caption: ATHENE BRODIEI.
Modern identification
Taenioptynx brodiei
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Owls · Strigidae
Why
Noctua brodiei Burton (Himalaya) = Taenioptynx brodiei, Collared Owlet; same species, now Taenioptynx.
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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