Printed on the plate
“Red-collared Diceum”
Diceum retrocinctum
Engraved caption: DICÆUM RETROCINCTUM, Gould.
Modern identification
Figure upper two, collared
Printed “Red-collared Diceum”
Dicaeum retrocinctum
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Flowerpeckers · Dicaeidae
Why
Dicaeum retrocinctum Gould (Philippines) = Scarlet-collared Flowerpecker: the two males with the scarlet hind-collar.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Figure lowest, no collar
Printed “Red-collared Diceum”
Dicaeum australe
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Flowerpeckers · Dicaeidae
Why
Gould's supposed female (Mindanao), white-throated and grey below with a red stripe down the belly, is the Red-keeled Flowerpecker (then D. papuense); Gould corrects himself in his text to II.37, after Sharpe and Salvadori.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text (and his text to II.37); Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould & W. Hart del et lithWalter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.