Printed on the plate
“Little Suya”
Suya lepida
Engraved caption: SUYA LEPIDA.
Modern identification
Prinia lepida
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Cisticolas and Allies · Cisticolidae
Why
Blyth's Prinia lepida, figured from a bird Gould's son shot at Karachi, Sind = Delicate Prinia, which eBird splits from the Graceful Prinia of NE Africa; streaked grey back, barred white-tipped tail.
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.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.