Printed on the plate
“Black-crested Tit”
Parus melanolophus
Engraved caption: PARUS MELANOLOPHUS, Vigors.
Modern identification
Periparus ater
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice · Paridae
Why
Parus melanolophus Vigors (Simla, the W Himalaya) is the Spot-winged Tit, which eBird 2025 keeps in Coal Tit as P. a. melanolophus, 'Coal Tit (Black-crested)'.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. II); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate
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.
