Printed on the plate
“Asiatic Sun-bird”
Nectarinia Asiatica
Engraved caption: NECTARINIA ASIATICA.
Modern identification
Cinnyris asiaticus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sunbirds and Spiderhunters · Nectariniidae
Why
Certhia asiatica Latham = Cinnyris asiaticus, Purple Sunbird; 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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