Printed on the plate
“Malayan Fairy Bluebird”
Irena cyanea
Engraved caption: IRENA CYANEA.
Modern identification
Irena puella
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Fairy-bluebirds · Irenidae
Why
Muscicapa cyanea Begbie (Malay Peninsula; Moore's malayensis) = the Malayan race of Asian Fairy-bluebird.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
