Printed on the plate
“Red-backed Dicaeum”
Diceum cruentum
Engraved caption: DICÆUM CRUENTATUM.
Modern identification
Dicaeum cruentatum
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Flowerpeckers · Dicaeidae
Why
Certhia cruentata Linnaeus = Dicaeum cruentatum, Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker; 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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
