Printed on the plate
“White-collared Merula”
Merula albocincta
Engraved caption: MERULA ALBOCINCTA.
Modern identification
Turdus albocinctus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Thrushes and Allies · Turdidae
Why
Turdus albocinctus Royle = White-collared Blackbird; 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 lithHullmandel & Walton, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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