Printed on the plate
“Rufous-breasted Spilornis”
Spilornis rufipectus
Engraved caption: SPILORNIS RUFIPECTUS, Loudd
Modern identification
Spilornis rufipectus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Hawks, Eagles, and Kites · Accipitridae
Why
Gould's own Spilornis rufipectus, from Wallace's Macassar specimen, is the Sulawesi Serpent-Eagle, a species; the survey's form of Crested Serpent-Eagle was wrong. Kansas agrees.
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. Wolf and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton imp
- Joseph Wolf drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.