Printed on the plate
“Plain Zosterops”
Zosterops simplex
Engraved caption: ZOSTEROPS SIMPLEX, Swinh.
Modern identification
Zosterops simplex
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies · Zosteropidae
Why
Zosterops simplex Swinhoe, of south China = Swinhoe's White-eye, which eBird keeps apart from the Warbling White-eye; same name.
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 & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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