Printed on the plate
“Ash-coloured Tit”
Parus cinereus
Engraved caption: PARTS CINEREUS, Viill.
Modern identification
Parus cinereus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice · Paridae
Why
Parus cinereus Vieillot (syn. atriceps, nipalensis; India, Ceylon, Java) = Asian Tit, nominate; Kansas's Great Tit is the parent before the split.
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.
