Printed on the plate
“Pirik Bee-eater”
Merops quinticolor
Engraved caption: MEROPS QUINTICOLOR, Vieill.
Modern identification
Merops leschenaulti
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Bee-eaters · Meropidae
Why
Gould's Merops quinticolor, whose synonymy takes in Vieillot's leschenaulti and whose range is India, Ceylon and Java, = Merops leschenaulti, Chestnut-headed Bee-eater; quinticolor is now the Javan race, but Gould's bird is the whole species, so no form.
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
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