Printed on the plate
“Palm Roof-Swift”
Cypselus infumatus
Engraved caption: CYPSELUS INFUMATUS, Sclat.
Modern identification
Cypsiurus balasiensis
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Swifts · Apodidae
Why
Cypselus infumatus Sclater (Borneo, Assam's Naga and Garo hills, Hainan; Jerdon's specimen) is the eastern race of Asian Palm Swift. Kansas's African Palm Swift is another continent.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; 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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