Printed on the plate
“Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch”
Sitta castaneoventris
Engraved caption: SITTA CASTANEOVENTRIS: Frankl:
The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch.
Modern identification
Sitta castanea
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Nuthatches · Sittidae
Why
Sitta castaneoventris Franklin = Sitta castanea, Indian Nuthatch, which eBird splits from Chestnut-bellied: Gould's figures are small, slender-billed birds from Gorakhpur on the Gangetic plain, and he keeps the stout-billed S. cinnamoventris (II.44) apart.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
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.