Printed on the plate
“Banded Kingfisher”
Carcineutes pulchellus
Engraved caption: CARCINEUTES PULCHELLUS, Horsf.
Modern identification
Lacedo pulchella
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Kingfishers · Alcedinidae
Why
Dacelo pulchella Horsfield (Java) = Lacedo pulchella, Banded Kingfisher, nominate race.
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 & W. Hart, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
