Printed on the plate
“Grey-banded Laughing Thrush”
Garrulax picticollis
Engraved caption: GARRULAX PICTICOLLIS, Swinh.
Modern identification
Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush
Pterorhinus pectoralis
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Laughingthrushes and Allies · Leiothrichidae
Why
Garrulax picticollis Swinhoe (grey gorget, ochre-tipped tail) = Pterorhinus pectoralis picticollis, the E China race of Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush, not the Lesser Necklaced (moniliger) Gould names as its ally.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. III); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue
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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.