Printed on the plate
“Robert's Wedge-billed Wren”
Sphenocichla Roberti
Engraved caption: SPHENOCICHLA ROBERTI, Godwin Austen & Walden.
Modern identification
Stachyris roberti
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Tree-Babblers, Scimitar-Babblers, and Allies · Timaliidae
Why
Godwin-Austen & Walden's Sphenocichla roberti (N Cachar, Manipur) = Cachar Wedge-billed Babbler, a species apart from the Sikkim bird (IV.55) in eBird 2025; Gould and Sharpe took it for the female of humii.
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 & W. Hart, del et lith.Walter, Imp
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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