Printed on the plate
“Celestial Grandala”
Grandala coelicolor
Engraved caption: GRANDALA COLICOLOR, Hodgs.
Modern identification
Grandala coelicolor
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Thrushes and Allies · Turdidae
Why
Hodgson's Grandala coelicolor = Grandala: glossy blue male, streaked brown female with a white wing band.
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
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