Printed on the plate
“Black-and-white Sibia”
Sibia melanoleuca
Engraved caption: SIBIA MELANOLEUCA, Tickell.
Modern identification
Heterophasia melanoleuca
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Laughingthrushes and Allies · Leiothrichidae
Why
Sibia melanoleuca Tickell, the typical pair from the Karen hills = Heterophasia melanoleuca, Black-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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