Printed on the plate
“Crested Tree-Swift”
Dendrochelidon coronatus
Engraved caption: DENDROCHELIDON CORONATUS.
Modern identification
Hemiprocne coronata
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Treeswifts · Hemiprocnidae
Why
Hirundo coronata Tickell, of peninsular India = Hemiprocne coronata, Crested Treeswift; same species, older genus.
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 and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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