Printed on the plate
“Indian Cliff-Swallow”
Lagenoplastes fluvicola
Engraved caption: LAGENOPLASTES TLUVICOLA.
Modern identification
Petrochelidon fluvicola
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Swallows · Hirundinidae
Why
Hirundo fluvicola Jerdon = Petrochelidon fluvicola, Streak-throated Swallow; 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 & 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.