Printed on the plate
“Naga Nuthatch”
Sitta nagaensis
Engraved caption: SITTA NAGAENSIS, Goduin-Austen.
Modern identification
Sitta nagaensis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Nuthatches · Sittidae
Why
Sitta nagaensis Godwin-Austen (Naga Hills; the type figured) = Chestnut-vented Nuthatch; 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 & W. Hart del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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