Printed on the plate
“Grey-winged Merula”
Merula Boulboul
Engraved caption: MERULA BOULBOUL.
Modern identification
Turdus boulboul
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Thrushes and Allies · Turdidae
Why
Turdus boulboul Latham (syn. Vigors's poecilopterus) = Gray-winged 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 lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.