Printed on the plate
“Pere David's Pterorhinus”
Pterorhinus Davidi
Engraved caption: PTERORIUNUS DAVIDI, Swinh.
Modern identification
Pterorhinus davidi
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Laughingthrushes and Allies · Leiothrichidae
Why
Pterorhinus davidi Swinhoe = Pere David's Laughingthrush; same name.
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 & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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