“MacGregor's Niltava” (Small Niltava) · Gould, The Birds of Asia, volume II, plate 22

Volume II, plate 22 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Small Niltava (Niltava macgrigoriae) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume II, plate 22, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“MacGregor's Niltava”

Niltava MacGregoriae

Engraved caption: VILTAVA MACCREGORLE.

Modern identification

Small Niltava

Niltava macgrigoriae

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae

Why

Phoenicura macgrigoriae Burton, the male figured from his type = Niltava macgrigoriae, Small 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)

eBird
Wikidata
GBIF
Avibase

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lithHullmandel & 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.

The scan at the Biodiversity Heritage Library