Printed on the plate
“Wire-tailed Swallow”
Hirundo filifera
Engraved caption: HURUNDO FILFERA, Steph.
Modern identification
Hirundo smithii
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Swallows · Hirundinidae
Why
Hirundo filifera Stephens, the Wire-tailed Swallow of India, is H. smithii filifera, the Asian race; Gould doubted the African birds were the same.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue
Who made the plate
J. Gould, and 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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