Printed on the plate
“Sultan Tit”
Melanochlora Sultanea
Engraved caption: MELANOCELORA SULTANEA.
Modern identification
Melanochlora sultanea
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice · Paridae
Why
Parus sultaneus Hodgson = Melanochlora sultanea, Sultan 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 & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.