Printed on the plate
“Chinese Tit”
Parus minor
Engraved caption: PARUS MINOR, Temm & Schleg.
Modern identification
Parus cinereus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice · Paridae
Why
Parus minor Temminck & Schlegel (Gould's skins from Shanghai and Japan; olive-yellow mantle) = the Japanese Tit, which eBird 2025 lumps into Asian Tit as its minor group, so a race of Parus cinereus.
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.
