Printed on the plate
“Rosy-breasted Trogon”
Harpactes ardens
Engraved caption: HARPACTES ARDENS.
Modern identification
Harpactes ardens
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Trogons · Trogonidae
Why
Trogon ardens Temminck = Harpactes ardens, Philippine Trogon; Kansas's Mountain 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.Walter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.