Printed on the plate
“Maroon Oriole”
Psaropholus Trailli
Engraved caption: PSAROPHOLUS TRAULLI.
Modern identification
Oriolus traillii
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Orioles · Oriolidae
Why
Oriolus traillii Vigors (Himalaya) = Maroon Oriole; same species, Gould's Psaropholus.
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 & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
