Printed on the plate
“Slender-billed Chat-Thrush”
Leioptila annectens
Engraved caption: LIOPTILA ANNECTANS, Blyth.
Modern identification
Leioptila annectens
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Laughingthrushes and Allies · Leiothrichidae
Why
Leioptila annectens Blyth = Rufous-backed Sibia; 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
W. Hart del. et lith.Walter imp.
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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