Printed on the plate
“Spotted Wren”
Anorthura formosa
Engraved caption: ANORTHURA FORMOSA.
The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Spotted Wren.
Modern identification
Elachura formosa
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Spotted Elachura · Elachuridae
Why
Walden's Troglodytes formosus (Blyth's preoccupied punctata; Darjeeling) = Spotted Elachura, Elachura formosa, now in a family of its own.
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
W. Hart del. et lith.Walter imp.
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.