Printed on the plate
“Scimitar-bill”
Xiphoramphus superciliaris
Engraved caption: XIPHORHAMPHUS SUPERCILIARIS, Blyth.
Modern identification
Slender-billed Scimitar-Babbler
Pomatorhinus superciliaris
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Tree-Babblers, Scimitar-Babblers, and Allies · Timaliidae
Why
Xiphorhamphus superciliaris Blyth (Darjeeling) = Pomatorhinus superciliaris, Slender-billed Scimitar-Babbler; 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
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & 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.