Printed on the plate
“Spotted Creeper”
Salpornis spilonota
Engraved caption: SALPORNIS SPILONOTA .
Modern identification
Salpornis spilonota
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Spotted Creepers · Salpornithidae
Why
Franklin's Certhia spilonota (central India) = Indian Spotted Creeper, which eBird splits from the African Spotted Creeper.
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 & H. C. Richter, del et lithWalter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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