Printed on the plate
“Fasciated Trogon”
Harpactes fasciatus
Engraved caption: HARPACTES FASCIATUS.
Modern identification
Harpactes fasciatus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Trogons · Trogonidae
Why
Trogon fasciatus Pennant (Ceylon; syn. Gould's malabaricus) = Harpactes fasciatus, Malabar Trogon; Kansas's Violaceous Trogon is a New World bird.
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.