Printed on the plate
“Chestnut-bellied Dial Bird”
Copsychus suavis
Engraved caption: COPSYCHUS SUAVIS, Sclat.
Modern identification
Copsychus malabaricus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Copsychus suavis Sclater, from Banjarmasin in S Borneo, black-headed with white rump and chestnut belly, is C. malabaricus suavis, a Bornean race of White-rumped Shama (not the white-crowned stricklandii).
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue
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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