Printed on the plate
“Black-capped Kingfisher”
Halcyon atricapillus
Engraved caption: HALCYON ATRICAPILLUS.
Modern identification
Halcyon pileata
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Kingfishers · Alcedinidae
Why
Gould's Halcyon atricapillus (Gmelin; syn. Alcedo pileata Boddaert), from India and China = Halcyon pileata, Black-capped Kingfisher; Boddaert's name is older.
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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.