Printed on the plate
“Formosan Hypsipetes”
Hypsipetes nigerrima
Engraved caption: HYPSIPETES NIGERRIMA, Gould.
Modern identification
Hypsipetes leucocephalus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Bulbuls · Pycnonotidae
Why
Hypsipetes nigerrima Gould, from Swinhoe's Formosa birds, is H. leucocephalus nigerrimus, the Taiwan race of Black Bulbul; the plate shows the black bird with red bill and legs.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
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