Printed on the plate
“Red-crowned Garrulax”
Garrulax ruficeps
Engraved caption: GARRULAX RUFICEPS, Could.
Modern identification
Pterorhinus ruficeps
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Laughingthrushes and Allies · Leiothrichidae
Why
Gould's own Garrulax ruficeps, figured from Swinhoe's Formosa pair with a bright rufous crown and white throat, is the Rufous-crowned Laughingthrush, Pterorhinus ruficeps. eBird 2025 treats it as a species apart from the White-throated Laughingthrush.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; eBird/Clements 2025; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
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