Printed on the plate
“Indian Mosque-Swallow”
Cecropis erythropygia
Engraved caption: CECROPIS ERYTHROPYGIA .
Modern identification
Cecropis daurica
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Swallows · Hirundinidae
Why
Sykes's erythropygia, the streak-breasted Indian Red-rumped Swallow, is a race of Eastern Red-rumped Swallow in eBird 2025; the European daughter is rufula alone.
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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
