Printed on the plate
“Paradise Flycatcher”
Muscipeta Paradisi
Engraved caption: MUSCIPETA PARADISI.
Modern identification
Terpsiphone paradisi
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Monarch Flycatchers · Monarchidae
Why
Muscicapa paradisi Linnaeus, from the Himalaya to the tip of the Peninsula = Terpsiphone paradisi, Indian Paradise-Flycatcher, as eBird now restricts it.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. II); 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.