Printed on the plate
“Hurrial Bee-eater”
Merops viridis
Engraved caption: MEROPS VIRIDIS, Linn.
Modern identification
Merops orientalis
- Judged
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Bee-eaters · Meropidae
Why
Printed Merops viridis Linn., but the bird is the Asian Green Bee-eater: all green, golden crown, black gorget; Linnaeus's viridis is the Blue-throated Bee-eater, which the plate does not show.
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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