Printed on the plate
“Yarkand Tit”
Leptopoecile Sophiae
Engraved caption: LEPТОPECIE SOPHA, Cab.
Modern identification
Leptopoecile sophiae
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Long-tailed Tits · Aegithalidae
Why
Leptopoecile sophiae Severtzov (syn. Hume's stoliczkae; Biddulph's Yarkand male) = White-browed Tit-Warbler; 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 & W. Hart del. et lith.Walter imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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