Printed on the plate
“Dial Bird”
Copsychus saularis
Engraved caption: COPSYCHUS SAULARIS.
Modern identification
Copsychus saularis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Gracula saularis Linnaeus = Copsychus saularis, Oriental Magpie-Robin; same species.
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 and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
