Printed on the plate
“Chestnut-headed Ixulus”
Ixulus castaneiceps
Engraved caption: IXULUS CASTANICEPS, Moore.
Modern identification
Staphida castaniceps
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies · Zosteropidae
Why
Moore's Ixulus castaniceps (Khasi Hills, mislabelled Afghanistan) = Striated Yuhina, nominate race: scaly chestnut crown, white-tipped outer tail. Not the Indochinese Yuhina (IV.8), since split from it.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; 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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.