Printed on the plate
“Mountain-Tit”
Parus monticolus
Engraved caption: PARUS MONTICOLUS, Vig.
Modern identification
Parus monticolus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice · Paridae
Why
Parus monticolus Vigors (Himalaya) = Green-backed Tit; same name.
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
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