Printed on the plate
“Tickell's Laughing Thrush”
Trochalopteron melanostigma
Engraved caption: TROCHALOPTERON MELANOSTIGMA, Blyth.
Modern identification
Trochalopteron melanostigma
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Laughingthrushes and Allies · Leiothrichidae
Why
Trochalopteron melanostigma Blyth (Karen hills) = Silver-eared Laughingthrush, split from the Chestnut-crowned that Kansas 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 & W. Hart, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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