Printed on the plate
“Lunated Forktail”
Enicurus maculatus
Engraved caption: KNICOROS MACUIATOS, Vigors.
Modern identification
Enicurus maculatus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Vigors's Enicurus maculatus = Spotted Forktail, the nominate western race (the eastern race guttatus is IV.69).
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, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
