Printed on the plate
“Grand Niltava”
Niltava grandis
Engraved caption: VILTAVA GRANDIS.
Modern identification
Niltava grandis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Chaitaris grandis Blyth = Niltava grandis, Large Niltava; same species.
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
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