Printed on the plate
“Silvery-throated Tit”
Mecistura glaucogularis
Engraved caption: MECISTURA GHAUCUGULARIS, Gould
Modern identification
Aegithalos glaucogularis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Long-tailed Tits · Aegithalidae
Why
Gould's own Mecistura glaucogularis (Shanghai) = Aegithalos glaucogularis, Silver-throated Tit, split from the Long-tailed Tit.
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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