Printed on the plate
“Malacca Trogon”
Harpactes rutilus
Engraved caption: HARPACTES RUTILUS.
Modern identification
Harpactes orrhophaeus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Trogons · Trogonidae
Why
Gould's Harpactes rutilus (not Vieillot's, which he files under H. duvaucelii on I.67) is the Malayan trogon with a uniform cinnamon back and no scarlet rump: the Cinnamon-rumped Trogon. The plate shows the black-headed male with cinnamon rump and the brown-headed female; the survey's Scarlet-rumped Trogon is wrong.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; 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
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