Printed on the plate
“Variegated Wagtail”
Limonidromus Indicus
Engraved caption: LIMONIDROMUS INDICUS.
Modern identification
Dendronanthus indicus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Wagtails and Pipits · Motacillidae
Why
Gmelin's Motacilla indica = Forest Wagtail, Dendronanthus indicus.
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
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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