Printed on the plate
“White-bellied Callene”
Callene albiventris
Engraved caption: CALLENE ALBIVENTRIS , Fairb.
Modern identification
Sholicola albiventris
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Callene albiventris Fairbank, from the Palni Hills south of the Palghat Gap = Sholicola albiventris, White-bellied Sholakili, not the Nilgiri Sholakili that Kansas's Brachypteryx major names.
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 & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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