Printed on the plate
“Himalayan Conostoma”
Conostoma emodium
Engraved caption: COVOSTOMA ÆEMODTUM, Hoags
Modern identification
Paradoxornis aemodius
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Parrotbills · Paradoxornithidae
Why
Conostoma aemodium Hodgson (Nepal) = Great Parrotbill, which eBird 2025 puts in Paradoxornis as P. aemodius.
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 lithHullmandel & Walton, Imp
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.