Printed on the plate
“Hooded Tree-Swift”
Dendrochelidon comatus
Engraved caption: DENDROCHELIDON COMATUS.
Modern identification
Hemiprocne comata
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Treeswifts · Hemiprocnidae
Why
Cypselus comatus Temminck = Hemiprocne comata, Whiskered Treeswift; Gould drew Manila skins (the Philippine race major), but the printed name is the nominate's.
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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.