Printed on the plate
“Chinese Rhopophilus”
Rhopophilus pekinensis
Engraved caption: RHOPOPHOLUS PEKINENSIS, Swinh.
Modern identification
Rhopophilus pekinensis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Parrotbills · Paradoxornithidae
Why
Swinhoe's Drymoeca pekinensis, figured from his Peking specimen = Beijing Babbler, Rhopophilus pekinensis, which eBird splits from the Tarim Babbler.
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 & 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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