Printed on the plate
“Silver-eared Leiothrix”
Leiothrix argentauris
Engraved caption: LEIOTHRIX ARCENTAURIS.
Modern identification
Leiothrix argentauris
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Laughingthrushes and Allies · Leiothrichidae
Why
Hodgson's Mesia argentauris = Silver-eared Mesia, Leiothrix argentauris; same name today.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. IV); 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.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.
