Printed on the plate
“Daurian Mosque-Swallow”
Cecropis Daurica
Engraved caption: CECROPIS DAURICA.
Modern identification
Cecropis daurica
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Swallows · Hirundinidae
Why
Hirundo daurica Linnaeus = Cecropis daurica, Eastern Red-rumped Swallow: Gould's figures (Tristram's skins) show the darker rump and bold breast streaks he contrasts with rufula (I.27).
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 & H. C. Richter, del et lithWalter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
