Printed on the plate
“Indian Kingfisher”
Halcyon fusca
Engraved caption: HALCYON FUSCA.
Modern identification
Halcyon smyrnensis
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Kingfishers · Alcedinidae
Why
Halcyon fusca (Boddaert), of India and Ceylon, is H. smyrnensis fusca, the Indian race of White-throated Kingfisher.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue
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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