Printed on the plate
“Blue-mantled Fairy Bluebird”
Irena cyanogastra
Engraved caption: IRENA CYANOGASTRA, Vigors.
Modern identification
Irena cyanogastra
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Fairy-bluebirds · Irenidae
Why
Irena cyanogastra Vigors (Luzon) = Philippine Fairy-bluebird, nominate race.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. III); 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.Waller, 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.
