Printed on the plate
“Malaccan Dial Bird”
Copsychus Mindanensis
Engraved caption: COPSYCHUS MINDANENSIS.
Modern identification
Copsychus saularis
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Gould's 'Malacca Dial Bird' is the magpie-robin of Malacca, Penang and Sumatra, with Raffles's musicus in his synonymy, and he says he never saw it from the Philippines and doubts it occurs there. It is Copsychus saularis musicus, a race of Oriental Magpie-Robin, not the Philippine Magpie-Robin that Gmelin's mindanensis names.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. III); engraved caption on the leaf; 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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