Printed on the plate
“Grass-Owl”
Strix candida
Engraved caption: STRIX CANDIDA, Tickell.
Modern identification
Tyto longimembris
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Barn-Owls · Tytonidae
Why
Strix candida Tickell (syn. longimembris Jerdon) = Tyto longimembris, Australasian Grass-Owl: long-legged, dark-backed adult and tawny young. Gould's India-to-Australia range is this species, not the African Grass-Owl.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
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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