Printed on the plate
“Elegant Tit”
Parus elegans
Engraved caption: PARUS ELEGANS, Lesson
Modern identification
Periparus elegans
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice · Paridae
Why
Parus elegans Lesson (Philippines) = Periparus elegans, Elegant Tit; 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 & W. Hart del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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