Printed on the plate
“Many-coloured Kingfisher”
Halcyon omnicolor
Engraved caption: HALCYON OMNICOLOR.
Modern identification
Halcyon cyanoventris
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Kingfishers · Alcedinidae
Why
Gould's synonymy makes omnicolor Vieillot's Alcedo cyanoventris. Java only; dark brown head, chestnut collar and throat, smalt-blue back and belly: the Javan Kingfisher, not the Collared the survey read.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate
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.